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19 days ago by Michelle

If I spin around and jump and shout Louisa Adjoa Parker for Rosina if i spin around quickly enough will i catch sight of you, my ghost-sister, smiling behind me before you fade like cotton in the sun? if i jump, keep on jumping, until my head just peeps over the top of this world, will i find myself ...

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20 days ago by Michelle

A Ruffer Version Tim Wells That time in Efes, when the killer strolled in, I’m sure Mehmet saw it coming ‘cos he blanched, and his eyes moved from the door to the barman, then finally to the man. The gunman walked behind him, as he sat leaning back in his chair, pulled slightly back and popped him i ...

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21 days ago by Michelle

Song of the Nymphomaniac Fiona Pitt-Kethley From Baffin Bay down to Tasmania I’ve preached and practised nymphomania, Had gentlemen of all complexions, All with varying erections: Coalmen, miners, metallurgists, Gurus, wizards, thaumaturgists, Aerial artists, roustabouts, Recidivists and down-and-ou ...

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23 days ago by Michelle

Anne writes: “As well as on recent 50p coins, Britannia used to appear on the old British pennies. The influence of society’s, and the state’s, demands on individual identity is something that has troubled me for many years.” Britannia Anne Berkeley Careful not to soil her dainty Ferragamos, the gra ...

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26 days ago by Michelle

Your Name Has Been Randomly Selected Tom Chivers Pennie Rakestraw emailed details of my order; she claimed it helped performance in the bedroom. Freuden Ginnery agreed and lodged himself between the hard drive and the fan. He squeaks his sales pitch on reboot. Morace Shakoor was kind enough to send ...

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28 days ago by Michelle

Body of work Joan Metelerkamp As coming upon a puff-adder coiled on the carpet under the desk or a boomslang slithered off out of its tracks then its skin and later even its bones … perhaps they didn’t even know it was done when it was done, those alchemists, perhaps it felt too easy – like waking d ...

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31 days ago by Michelle

It takes a village Sindiwe Magona It takes a village To raise a child Mother to tomorrow’s Village. It takes a village To heal broken accord Child to tomorrow’s War. It takes a village To plough the widow’s field So her children will not steal To live. It takes a village To sow seeds of life Coopera ...

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32 days ago by Michelle

Another Country Helen Moffett In other countries, I become a different person. In Uganda, I drink beer after Tuskers beer, and in Barbados, home-made herb rum. In Alaska, I drive a four-by-four. In Ireland, I stick out my thumb. In Greece, I share a room with strangers. And everywhere, I get up befo ...

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33 days ago by Michelle

Legacy – after Frida Kahlo Fiona Zerbst ‘We must sleep with open eyes, we must dream with our hands’ – Octavio Paz I. This column of air. These nights of broken stone. This flesh that speaks. If Mexico is Frida, It is also Fig and prickly pear, Water gods, dry ears Of corn, torn as petticoats. II. V ...

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34 days ago by Michelle

Shell Island Ian Parks The girl is tall and never thinks of food unless he brings her oysters from the bay arranged with lemon on an oval plate. It is their only luxury. At night an oil-lamp swings above the bed; a tarnished mirror glints across the hall; their furniture is sanded to a cool, transpa ...

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