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This for my words

That for my pictures

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#Pain #Poem

September 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM

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#Strand #Stand #Move #writing

September 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM

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#poem #Writing

WEDNESDAY (thread ↓)

It’s good to keep an eye on things.
Apparently.

Last night a big tower block
surrounded by rubble and ash
was blown up.

September 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM

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#Future #Life #Poetry #Writing

Coming Soon (thread ↓)

Everyone already knows.
They’ve seen a film, or a TV series,
or listened to a podcast —
or maybe they just dreamt it.

September 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM

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#Everything #Counts #Poem #Writing

Everything Counts (thread ↓)

There are so many things and they could all be numbered—
in no order and without meaning.

September 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM

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#After #Poetry #Writing

The After (thread ↓)

So let’s play a game.
Let’s call this game The After.
Let’s pretend it’s as real
as we believe this life to be.

September 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM

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#communication #poem

September 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM

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#Bad #Dog #Poem

September 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM

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#Poem

June 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM

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#Jury #poetry

Jury Duty

Dad used to come here
inside his oval black metal tin,
with a grey-white wig
of horse or granny hair.

I thought this place—
this process—
would be black,
not the colour
of tea and paper.

Its weight measured
in plastic cups,
in airports,
in offices,
and reality TV.

June 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM

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#future #note #poem

May 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM

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#Poetry #Class #Poem

a longer version

May 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM

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#upstairs #poem

May 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM

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#Socks #Poem #Poetrycommunity

EXSTASIS

Three thousand things left undone today and each with a subclause and appendix

Damn

Socks off felt like victory

May 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM

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#distance #time #walking #poem

May 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM

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#memory #poem

SPLINTERS

It was strong shadows,
corrugated iron,
and velvet dust.

One night,
the whole sky
lit up electric.

For a second—
daylight,
only above the houses.

I didn’t know what caused it.
I didn’t know if I saw it.

I don’t know
if I really saw it.

May 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM