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leslie-philibert
63/M London-born poet living in Germany, has published poetry in the US, Canada / and the UK.
the slight rattle of shutters a print that is not sepia looks from a black doorway or a head-frame under sleet there is too much behind me
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3d ago
Jun 1, 2026 at 7:28 AM UTC
Ghosts
the rain collects on a flat roof under wood a familiy sleeps all is as it is
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Apr 21
Apr 21, 2026 at 1:32 PM UTC
Free After Flaubert
the sea is full of riders countless and unescaped they do not care for us
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Apr 10
Apr 10, 2026 at 3:21 PM UTC
The Sea
as cool as white sheets you slip beside me a ghost, a loss
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Mar 28
Mar 28, 2026 at 5:25 PM UTC
Solace
( on the 16th January 1362 the village of Rungholt on the North Sea was flooded) the tide cuts out hands stones, bracken and **** wash past tidal eyes we are lost in the water of a new place we did not create the bell. the bell.
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Mar 15
Mar 15, 2026 at 4:39 AM UTC
Water, Torf and Salt
in flood, nimble under waves not a bringer of Salve but a sign of endings
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Mar 5
Mar 5, 2026 at 11:06 AM UTC
Highwater Pike
my copy left careless on the back seat there are too many edges outside here we are safe
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Feb 27
Feb 27, 2026 at 6:57 PM UTC
Rilke and the Supermarket
girl in a blue dress the bus pulls out for a second we were together now not, never
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Feb 25
Feb 25, 2026 at 5:43 AM UTC
Girl
things create their own life rain, stones, light they are not the sum of themselves winter is breaking snow is glass
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Feb 24
Feb 24, 2026 at 5:16 AM UTC
Frozen
the tension in stressed blackwood skinned wing of a sparrow the clean knife of a december wind all this all this steps on gravel the night's last
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Dec 16, 2020
Dec 16, 2020 at 11:18 AM UTC
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