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Two Poems by Jonathan Humble

Masterclass The shed was an apex all-wood home-built construction, erected that furnace of a summer when we burnt in the...
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sunrise
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The Silence of Daybreak by Michael H Brownstein

The vocabulary of whisper begins with fog over the river, a white break in the cloud cover, the great mastiffs,...
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Isle of Skye
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Night Drive by Raymond Moore

Darkness embraced us like a Granny’s cuddle as we left the Flodigarry Hotel satiated with herring and new potatoes I...
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Two Poems by Bernard Pearson

Ardmore Bay Hearts may be harvested at such a place, between the sea and the dishevelled land Where in a...
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Two Poems by David Estringel

Life From a Garden Fence A wooden rain barrel— weathered and worn— slowly bleeds sweet elixir in drips and drabs...
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Rabbit on the road
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Three Poems by J. R. Solonche

TO THE RABBIT I KILLED ON THE ROAD THIS MORNING When I am dead as you are dead, struck down...
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Two Poems by Jennifer A. Walker

Relic & once a series of pulleys rose sweet hay to the high-arched loft & once cattle were milked with...
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Fruit on table
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Ferment by Hiram Larew

What if fruit got left out too long …….for love of course but better? And what if cabbage was put...
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living room
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We passed over the sky by Katherine Shirley

Each year, after Christmas My parents would take Each other to task over The chore of packing up Everything not...
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Dreaming of a Wildflower Garden, by Ross Walsh

My mother told me to mow the lawn. I refused. I pointed out that to raze the grass, to behead...
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Three Poems by Nuala Roche

Gyrification There will be time for waiting Enough. Too much Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa watching. Consider the river’s meanders that more and more...
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horror poems
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Three Poems by Katie O’Sullivan

Ode to Hannibal I was scrolling – wallowing – through the Netflix abyss, Avoiding Mister Darcys, Tall Dark and Handsomes....
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