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Posted on Mar 17, 2023Feb 26, 2026

Poetry Collection: Fleeting Songs, Eternal

My journey along the winding, wistful, wond’rous way that is Japanese poetry.

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Posted on Mar 7, 2023

One More Drop Of Coffee

Coffee-disk.

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Posted on Mar 6, 2023Feb 26, 2026

Poetry Collection: Written Somewhere Sunny In The South-West

A free, downloadable PDF of my new poetry collection!

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Posted on Feb 20, 2023

Time-Begotten

Hist’ry-layered.

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Posted on Jan 31, 2023

Twirling Doodles

Well-lived.

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Posted on Jan 22, 2023

An Old York Sunset’s Scene-Song

New wetland frozen fast.

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Posted on Jan 17, 2023

Sketch (Once More)

Grow, gradual scribbles.

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Posted on Jan 12, 2023

Undiscovered

I write for longer projects.

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Posted on Dec 18, 2022Nov 10, 2024

Nafereti-Iti: Book Two

The girl-child, become woman, leaves her childhood for the palace life.

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Posted on Nov 22, 2022Nov 22, 2022

[Without End]

End-less.

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Posted on Nov 16, 2022

Twinkle-Burn, Far Ago Star

Delphic, dark, ‘n hid you are…

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Posted on Nov 5, 2022Nov 5, 2022

Our Aft’noon/Eve In Haiku

Here where the lake’s submerged this bench.

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Posted on Nov 4, 2022Nov 4, 2022

On Th’Way To Glendalough

Glenmacnass leaps to the valley b’low, her sights upon the Irish Sea…

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Posted on Nov 1, 2022

A Tanka ‘Pon Visiting The Joyce Centre

Choice Joyce-isms.

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Posted on Oct 30, 2022

Moon Dance

Backache from moving tables ‘n cèilidhing about for hours amongst the mini-gourds ‘n flow’rs.

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Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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