Recently published poetry

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   Khryssoula on January 1, 2018 at 7:13 pm

   I almost (accidently) deleted this email. I’m so glad I didn’t.
   Your eloquence is not only beautiful but moving:
   in Barre-Warre
   ‘the names still echo in the dunes like prayers’

   Although I’d already read ’47 Alison Street’ back in the day
   I can see again
   Eualaiie’s ‘students’
   piano-ed hands’
   and then
   “Celeste in
   wedding ivory satin
   step light of foot
   into Alison street in 1938.”

   And “Night” is a masterpiece of imagery:

   “Birds fold themselves up
   Like faded Christmas cards”

   “Clocks speed up their complaining
   Cars creep towards home
   Fog like a smokers’ cough”

   I look forward to reading more