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Posted on November 3, 2019November 3, 2019

The Ballad Of Stokes Croft: a song of poems

It is a song of poems – different parts in different verse throughout a night exchanging stories.

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Posted on November 2, 2019November 14, 2019

A Last Request

Let me/it, at last, then, rise, buffeted by sound-waves.

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Posted on October 23, 2019

Another Moment Here ‘N Then

The breeze feels like an echo of a cold too cold to bear, as the gull glides on its currents and the waves of winter light.

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Posted on October 20, 2019October 20, 2019

Excerpts: a trailer for a ballad

Each of us with tales ‘n layered lives to be disclosed…

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Posted on October 15, 2019October 15, 2019

The Treasure Of The Pied Crow

Pied white ‘n dull-green ‘n shim’ring black, treasuring the trove you’ve gathered.

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Posted on October 8, 2019October 8, 2019

Zappai In ‘N On Stokes Croft

The road’s become community.

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Posted on September 30, 2019September 30, 2019

A Bristol Series

Poetry, prose…

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Posted on September 24, 2019September 24, 2019

The Kingfisher

The orange-breasted kingfisher keeps the wall in feathers.

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Posted on September 19, 2019September 19, 2019

Someday(.)?

I should (someday) write while on that journey.

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Posted on August 25, 2019

Against Another Tree In Queen Square

Quite & very welcome.

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Posted on August 18, 2019

A Canteen Tanka & A Comment

Writing about sharing writing.

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Posted on August 15, 2019

Pink, Lit, ‘N Green

A place so full and hillside-located; pink, lit, ‘n green.

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Posted on August 4, 2019August 9, 2019

The Cup For Tea

I used to sit in the wind of the morning, hearing them shout out numbers.

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Posted on July 23, 2019July 23, 2019

And Across From Me?

Stillness. So still, so quiet.

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Posted on July 1, 2019

Tanka, With A Rhyming Couplet

The city is mapped.

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