Sunday, 1 January 2023
The Geographer
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To find Ireland the globe was turned. She sounded out Russia, and expressed how it upset her about it invading Ukraine, and how it has so mu...
Thursday, 1 December 2022
Growth Rings
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That romantic notion of planting our own garden became so Trojan and arduous that we lost heart. I wonder now what daily chores kept us from...
Tuesday, 1 November 2022
Under-14s
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In Creeslough, on a Friday, time stopped forever for ten people who had things to do. Leona Harper had been raised like all our children; to...
Saturday, 1 October 2022
Chiffchaff
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Staring from a golden eye-ring, checking whether you can fly. You just stand and get your bearings, silent when not set up high. Then the as...
Thursday, 1 September 2022
Library Pictures
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I can see myself seeing him, Gorbachev on the TV screen. I recall the library pictures, and the ever-present figure of Dr. John Harbison, t...
Monday, 1 August 2022
Unyielding
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My kingdom for a sausage that can be removed. Not bound by other hostages; chained, and stuck, and glued. Give me the option, drama free, to...
Friday, 1 July 2022
Restored
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Let her walk the tides, delighting in her tiny feet gifted by the otherside, where all is wine and cheese, and freedom for the ones who died...
Wednesday, 1 June 2022
Hornet's Nest
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But they are ready, don't you understand? Yes, the latest massacre occurred, but there are plenty more schools in the land. But they a...
Sunday, 1 May 2022
Stolen Minutes
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Is any food as good as when it's made by someone else? What pleasure and what leisure, regardless of expense. But, better still, the san...
Friday, 1 April 2022
Time Capsule
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The rabbits eat the bellis while the cat sleeps snug inside, I patrol by dusk and upturn pots to tasty flowers hide. Just one night missed w...
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