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on the sofa
Lying to my rightCushions warm against my backAs if in your arms~ n.b. A deception I can wear. CLP 18/07/2024 →
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on Ukraine
no relief from machinerysleep-less, ill-less, weary-lessit runs regardlesson another beautiful sunriseperfect for the harvestwho drives the combinesturning fields of wheatto ragged lines of strawto fields of goldwho runs the trailerspilling grainslike breadcrumbsa golden trailfrom field to barnand back again?who dries the grainbefore the auger spraysinto the storage binswho tests the moisture contentthe temperatureof the heaped →
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on Ukraine
UA, yellow blueon cars’ registration platesrush along A1urgency of menheading home to what remainsweighed down with angerthrough Austrian rainSlovakia swelteringjust next door, the warmuddy Danube flowspast tourist boats, cafés, barsas if nothing’s wrongn.b. On a road-trip, I have now seen the Danube, fast-flowing, a seething river of summer storm run-off, as it heads toward Ukraine →
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on the river
two banks to each flowthe posh bit and the humanbridges rarely crossed ~ CLP 16/07/2024 →
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on dancing
veils or boundariesor is it the barricades?plain rules will be broke ~ CLP 13/07/2024 →
Journey of Words 