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Both US and UK spelling have it as a compound word – earthworms. While not as overwrought as previous posts, the piece still seems to be more about itself – as a vehicle for creative description – than about the apparent narrative, which seems to build to the question whether if earthworms had eyesi...

Yeah... it was recorded off the internal mike of a 20-year old notebook...I'm pretty low tech, ha ha.
I always enjoyed that easy-going quirkiness threaded through the Tom poems.
 

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Jane had a smile like a crowded bus
and a rear view like a blue-jeans ad.
I braided her long red hair one time
with beads and feathers and string.

Linda, this is funny. Who knew? Nicely done - another fascinating glimpse into the sometimes arcane world of Americana. Enjoyable read. Mark.

Hehe - still there and i remembered the password. Gyppo, I hope you don't mind me posting this here. One of Tracy's pieces read by me. I see others there but mostly dreck, I think. And if it defaults to some dreadful music - I'm innocent. https://soundcloud.com/discover/sets/track-stations:486542433...

I remember now, I did this on SoundCloud a few years ago, I will check if the sign-up is still there.

I  listened without any glitches. Good speaking voice, well-modulated, almost theatrical.
Can't say why but I was sort of expecting a more gravelly voice.

Some well-presented images. Excellently recognizable people. I sometimes wonder bout the sacrifice and effort of that generation and the future they fought for...and the present world we have.  

Here's my 2-minute edit for what it's worth - I took the lines I liked, wiped most of the modifiers, juggled a little, added nothing but a single word, and evaded all that crow after-imagery stuff.  The day is full of murmurs. Striped glass fills a blue void; rain from a clear sky breaks expectation...

I deleted the spam and banned the spammer - pity, I agree Francis Crype is a great name for a poet in a  R.L. Stevenson sort of way.