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Elk
Mounted in Ulster Mausoleum / you greet me with your rotted smile, / with oaken bones splinted into pose
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Jun 19, 2013
Deciduous
October 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
9
May 20, 2013
Gerry's Revolution
Colonel Hathi with a hurl / that weighs in his illicit hands / like an AR18 play-park swing
16
May 19, 2013
Sunday and She Will Not Eat
A Sunday and she will not eat / cabbage brew / or the plethora of stale mush
22
May 18, 2013
Enniskillen 3
Mauve block of US is / frozen butter on soft bread / it won’t spread smoothly.
9
May 17, 2013
Ballyshannon Brown
They look upon your brindle bake / and break the silence with their spite / it whips across the troubled air
8
May 16, 2013
The Croatoan Tree
It sat upon Virginia’s shore / stalked by the sea, / it’s lichen pale with salt
20
May 16, 2013
Lightning Bugs
Not 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
12
May 15, 2013
Barnams
In the glass I glimpsed her eyes / they flitted over dappled cream, / but expectation became a cloud
16
Mar 11, 2013
Flagstones
The mossy stitch of a concrete quilt can / cosy and tuck the gummy road. And should / we scrawl upon patchwork step, catching
14
Feb 10, 2013
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