7 [postcard]: portrait photograph of Walt Whitman (credited to Mathew Brady, 1860) Double U * Three Christmas Mornings.https://youtu.be/dFdas-kMF74 1963 "It snowed. We drove home from my mum and dad's in Bellingham, me and your dad, after dinner. Sliding all over the road." This is mum. She is showing me the world as it … Continue reading Mirror (7): Three Christmas Mornings.
"Aye, coffin nails," she says regarding the spread of used cigarettes collected on the table before her. Her dreadlocks are corralled on top of her small head with a knotted tie-dye rag. She wears a lot of tie-dye. She laughs and the tips of hair prance on her shoulders like waxen ponies. She drums her … Continue reading Blanket For A Bairn.
the air stirs with rumour of the submarine halved in the harbour. brows furrow and palm-flattened charts appear. below the sheltered walls, an aria - an iron-throated chorister. archaic; rises, floats, fades, and disappears. (photo: nick reeves - south shields pier)
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