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Vita Vita
Here is the summary of my refreshment I will write this as I describe the geography of your voice to the creators of farce whose normal lives inspire me
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The Southern Traveller
Taunton Station 1 A black cat looked at a glass of red wine in the sun lounge at the station it considered the feelings of the grapes as they were crushed I have arranged the seeds of these unfortunate grapes on the platform in remembrance Taunton Station 2 If you sleep in the rest […]
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The Royal Sands Hotel
I was destroyed by those phoney shells as boys, far from home fought their mirror wars After the screaming storms had breached my peaceful line only the sands cared to remember my history Slapton Sands (August 1999)
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The Lantern of England
High in the tropics under a cathedral of trees busy angels admire the slenderness of ladders as they discharge their ministry a mysterious sculptor carves the light into a thousand pieces and a choir knocks at a dark door pleading for entry as the children create the rebus of their years in […]
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The Silk Merger
As the chevil flew above the silver slow downs it thought of its rest and the soft silence of the silk merger
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The Narrow Margin
In the darkness of the alley there are no doors just the narrow light of rapid angels as they descend into the luxurious ideal 1990
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Branch Line
A branch hit the train on which I was travelling I wept for the tree that had lost its child but enjoyed the winter storm On the 14th February 2014 during a storm a branch struck the train on which the author was travelling near Theale in West Berkshire. Little damaged was caused […]
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il Settebello
in the outskirts of Rome a Settebello snaked through The Post Industrial Landscape on a swivel chair in the observation saloon a boy named Anthony (Tony) wrote a poem he wrote this poem in brown ink Pietro dei Cieli on a cold night peter lay in the iced grass and imagined himself looking down […]
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Time Travel
On the 28th July 1947 Troy Weymouth travelled to the Dorsetshire town that shared his name His sister Harriot K travelled in the opposite direction Both used the red tunnel The tunnel was named Ghostcat After its inventor Both siblings knew this to be untrue as the tunnel had not been invented but found by […]
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Arno Amastas
Walked through the empty park each day and counted the blue birds in sequence on the first day he counted one on the second day he counted two on the third day he counted three on the fourth day there were none He did not count any further as he knew the world to be […]