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Limbs
It wasn’t a difficult mystery to solve; “Where did you get your long legs?” she had asked. His grandfather on one side was a good height, the other Scandinavian in origin, was the tallest, so he imagined. His own father was just a fraction short of six feet, a height he noticeably outgrew. The women →
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Absent Witch Constant Spell
within and withoutabout and aboveon water in airheld by limbs of dark woodsspun out in high cloudsin setting sun and rising starsbroken moon on the lakedancing through Alpine mistsunk in thermal poolsstrung out by pylonswith their infinite linescaught in corners of roomsby fine webs I’ll be boundwhile her butterfly wings no more can be found →
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on gaslighting
I wrote to youwith my concerns and fearsfor our collective future(the children’s too)waited for your reply I waited for youto phone or call byfor a discussionon how we might work itthrough I got your responsewoven through my linesexplainingyou’d done everythingyou could I was grateful to be toldeverything possiblewas possible and was goodif everyone else does →
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on luck (on Ukraine xxii)
cold rain and Covidare we heating or eating?anything else? ~ n.b. Escape your oppressors, come to the UK. You’ll be welcomed with warm hearts once you have passed HM Border Force with your visa. CLP 30/03/2022 →
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on time / on Ukraine xxi
cash our currencywhile you pay in cold bloodtoo little too late? ~ n.b. We do what we can, but this is the only way we know how. Is it enough? CLP 27/03/2022 →
Journey of Words 