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Four
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Four.
We are 3
brothers and
One...
A Nearly Poem About A Nearly Death
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I’m trying to write about my brother and
how he swallowed more pills
Than seconds in a minute.
I’m trying to remember how I felt when I
got his text that said,...
Lost reason, Found
Jealousy, hypocrisy not rhyme, only reason made treason.
the divulged now divergant emergency
Time for time.
unwrestled...
The Old House
THE OLD HOUSE
Listen…
Can you hear the creaking and the whistling in the eaves?
Can you hear the scuttling and the rustling of the leaves?...
Who was the angel (that saved your life)?
Do you remember a day a long time ago? A day that started with birdsong
Do you remember, walking so alone..Smiling, enjoying the sun?
It was the first time in years You'd held back the...
When there isn't time
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You marshall
thoughts like dominos, careful
to avoid one last tap. The page erupts in its blaring white
signal of the endless now. Knowing that
...
If Nick had been born Nicola
Thursday May 6th 2010
It was re-election time for the top job at Oxford University Union/
I'd always admired-respected-envied Gordon from afar/...
The Blue Screen of Death
Bad
command
File
not found
Out
of memory, access is denied
You
don’t have permission to proceed...
Gaza in June
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Sticky in his hand, now held low, a lollipop red and green
Watermelon, his favourite flavour
Beneath his feet and between his toes, the coarse Mediterranean sand
Yellow as old mustard...
The art of photographing Dragonflies
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Paddling for pictures,
amongst the reeds and rushes.
Creeping painfully slow,
edging closer and closer....
