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145: Catch You When You Fall
You hobble by on a broken leg, splintered, bandaged, and covered with a trouser leg, and hope that no one notice. Once out of sight you...
Sep 4, 20201 min read
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144: Intrusion
closing my eyes I see your smile warm like the sun peeking at me through the grass touching your arm I take in the light I feel the fire...
Sep 2, 20201 min read
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143: Normalisation
We sit in shadows, at each our desk and plastic chair, content with each our pain. Only when another shadow screams do we get up and...
Aug 31, 20201 min read
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142: Then Came the Storm
Thunder rolled in like waves through a vast sea of sky, preluding the soft smattering of rain that was soon to become inescapable....
Aug 28, 20202 min read
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141: The Grey Cat
Great grey paws stretch in through the vale Floating forward Sinking into the lake Resting after a long journey Encasing the peaks in...
Aug 26, 20201 min read
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140: Burning Bridges
Like Venice drowns in her own bedrock, so I sink into a scalding bath when the day is done. Coals smoulder beneath my tub, turning the...
Aug 24, 20201 min read
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139: Footsteps in the Rain
Rain rumbles down. Soft, like a continuous shower, it drifts across the lake and turns the clear glass into rumpled stucco, then fades...
Aug 21, 20201 min read
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138: Shakespearian Moths
When the play ends and the lights go out, we flitter home by silent roads. Every whisper, every hum, fades into a gentle night that...
Aug 19, 20201 min read
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137: King Arthur
Grey-haired, weary-eyed, bent, he stands on the street and tells a tale—a tale of an aerial dancer entwined in her silks, turning above...
Aug 17, 20201 min read
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136: The Silent Feast
let us feast under the roof of a woodland palace surrounded by moss until our stomachs ache and we are drunk on warm air and wine and lay...
Aug 14, 20201 min read
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135: When the Dead Return
Some times the needle stings. Some times the fabric rips. Some times the thread snaps. And some times the dead come back to make us crawl...
Aug 12, 20201 min read
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134: Between Doing and Doing
There is a particular sense of dread associated with blood in the shower. You stand under the pounding water, hands deep in shampooed...
Aug 10, 20202 min read
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