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I am not sure I get this but then how can one ever be sure. The choice of people to admire is eclectic indeed and puzzling on face value, especially Mike Hoare whom the writer here seems to admire for surviving. The texts are largely prose in conception and poetic in intention. I do like Mum's senti...

the loss of sideways glances They used to agree, the old folks; walking on the grass was wrong, or jaywalking, or feet on seats. Sex could be heard but not seen. I am an old folk now and have nothing to say so I take away the grass, the cars and seats. You can watch the sex whenever you like just sh...

A fun poem with good advice. A good way to start a new year.

spectres and auras and otherworldly normality, very nicely and matter a factly told. Much enjoyed.

Thanks for the tahnks and greetings. Hope Thanksgiving went as planned and was filled with amazing things.
Dave
 

Well oberved and a highly entertaining telling.
Thanks

Thanks Gyppo
Yes human nature is interesting indeed and hard to fathom sometimes.
Dave

(rcycling an older poem) Old Stone Walls in New Hampshire Granate walls wend through oak and maple, ironic vestiges of glacial forgetfulness, stones repossessed for homes and grazing animals inclined to wander like magentic north drawn from true. All moving beings abandon the unmoving like nomad set...

A girl's scream bleeds fear into the street, once, twice a third time, she yells. Heavy steps emerge from a point far off right draw into focus as they near and recede towards silence off left. Other voices, follow along the house fronts, urgent, hateful and scared, strangely lonely, seek blood, as ...

Good to have you posting again. Having said that these neat - too neat - works leave me hungry for soemthing more substantial perhaps and less clever. The first poem is betrayed by the weak inclusion of 'may', which robs the statement of conviction IMO. The first two lines are much more robust in th...