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Flesh Within
LOVE-LUST POEM #3: Frustration. Barriers. Desire.
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On The Struggle Of A Poetry Grump When Confronted With Free Verse That Isn’t
Scuffling with poetry that fails to resonate, blooms and dies. Parched flowers in the dark.
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Seraphim
LOVE-LUST POEM #2: The heavenly choir. Peacefully blessed. Simple desire in an infinite cosmos.
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Hourglass Sand
POETRY: Cause and consequences, the concertina of time, human failings.
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Buzzer’s Call
Mum died. I stay busy, yes-yes I’m OK, OK, I’m fine. But Hamlet broods. Grief grows like ivy – delicate, lingering, and rooted in these three poems. On…
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Oversense
LOVE-LUST POEM #1: Rawness. Intensity. Yearning.
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Flawed Claude
ACTUALITY: Adventures in AI, in which Claude admits to “talking out of my ass”
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Moor
POETRY: I’ll never be done with my life in the north
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Five Sheets or Less
POETRY: passion’s fading spark; the end of pornography; littered hinterlands
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