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ElkMounted in Ulster Mausoleum / you greet me with your rotted smile, / with oaken bones splinted into pose
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Jun 19, 2013
DeciduousOctober brings a flurry of trigger-happy handymen / to carpet over the potholes, puddles and last year’s cloth / with that emerald bract that’s rusted in seasons past and
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May 20, 2013
Gerry's RevolutionColonel Hathi with a hurl / that weighs in his illicit hands / like an AR18 play-park swing
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May 19, 2013
Sunday and She Will Not EatA Sunday and she will not eat / cabbage brew / or the plethora of stale mush
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May 18, 2013
Enniskillen 3Mauve block of US is / frozen butter on soft bread / it won’t spread smoothly.
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May 17, 2013
Ballyshannon BrownThey look upon your brindle bake / and break the silence with their spite / it whips across the troubled air
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May 16, 2013
The Croatoan TreeIt sat upon Virginia’s shore / stalked by the sea, / it’s lichen pale with salt
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May 16, 2013
Lightning BugsNot the drip of freeway from Pittsburgh but a rough trundle / on chalk roads as flaxen skies shade to molten celluloid / and I can still see them
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May 15, 2013
BarnamsIn the glass I glimpsed her eyes / they flitted over dappled cream, / but expectation became a cloud
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Mar 11, 2013
FlagstonesThe mossy stitch of a concrete quilt can / cosy and tuck the gummy road. And should / we scrawl upon patchwork step, catching
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Feb 10, 2013
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