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Andy Breckenridge
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Poet. Winner: Indigo Dreams Poetry Comp 2023.
Book of poems The Fish Inside available here https://flightofthedragonfly.com/shop/
The Liquid Air available from https://hybriddreich.co.uk
Lapsed Obanite. PTFC&CPFC
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Seasonal one from The Fish Inside from the fabulous Flight of the Dragonfly press.
April 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Poem a day late for St Patrick’s Day with apologies to Wim Wenders for the title.
The Keeper’s Fear Of Taking A Goal Kick I met Patrick for the first time in decades by chance. He was already two pints in and we got talking family, folk from school, jobs, mortgages, debt … Much later, he said sometimes his gut felt like a bucket crammed with eels but at other times like a creel full of lobsters and spider crabs. But the worst was the night he felt power cables pulled taut till they snapped and whiplashed like headless snakes spitting streams of sparks against the dense cloud until the pylon of him staggered and fell lay twitching on the ground. As he was telling me all this I remembered him the school genius, in his yellow keeper’s jersey taking an entire minute to line up a goal kick. Edging one way then the other instead of just running up putting his laces through it. I ordered him an Uber. The next day I skimmed a stone for him. The loch was slick still. The stone leapt several times, then slid along before it leant in under the skin.
March 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Happy Valentine’s Day evribdy. Poem from a while back…
February 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM