Tuesday, 7 June 2016
Dry Land
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At the end of the rains we took our places seemingly irreverent to the near sacred act of being outside for pleasure. The children, kneel...
Sunday, 1 May 2016
My Frogs
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When my frogs were leaving, I thought it no big deal, they're only frogs and even then they weren't real. No croaking noises in ...
Sunday, 24 April 2016
Ireland's Brave
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Stamping feet and gleaming buttons, standing neat for bugle summons. Medals, badges, flags displayed when Ireland celebrates her brave. ...
Saturday, 2 April 2016
A Vain Sparrowhawk
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The corvids screech and tear, there's war in the skies and fear in the air. The sparrowhawk flies, a bolt from the blue, a carrion ...
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Eat Cake
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Is it too much to expect that they will all play fair, the newly chosen elect select, together in daycare? Made safe from strangers, their...
Monday, 1 February 2016
Bow Strings
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I'm at home with my children. I'm a stay-at-home mother. I cook and I clean, one more than the other. And one far better, I'd...
Wednesday, 6 January 2016
The Magic Set
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My New Year's resolution comes far too late, I know. It would have been solution to my current biggest woe. The problem is, of this I...
Monday, 14 December 2015
Christmas 1984
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Canada Dry, stacks of it, Lemon's glut, piles of crisps. Early knocks, neighbour calls. New dolls, new blocks, new bikes and all. In a...
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
All Aboard
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Yelling numbers, like "two four twenty" or "loadsa hundred" at Nuala Carey. I don't think they feel we'll win,...
Sunday, 15 November 2015
We All Have Temples
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We all have temples and they're all in our heads. They are intersections and delicateness. Not a vital organ, not like the brain but ...
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