Category: Poems
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Update | Rooks
Thought it might be worth posting an update here to say…that there may not be many updates here. I’m currently focusing hard on some new writing work, a piece of long fiction, so will be probably posting here less, unless it’s going badly, in which case I’ll be procrastinating right here. I spent the last…
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New Poem: Blue
Blue The far sky the deep night the deep ocean deep throat the sound of sadness the colour of elsewhere the damned hue within that will not out. (c) KB 2013 Radiolab on lack of blue in any ancient texts here; Charlie Byrd playing ‘Blues for Night People’ here; Still no one can tell me why it’s called ‘the…
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Five Verses on Fatherhood
A new poem for Father’s Day. Da. Da A-Ba you our first attempts at speech you our desire to reach up in words and in words speak worlds into being. Daddy? A question too often with no reply speaking into absence empty rooms closed doors or nailed-down lids. The heavy cloak each prodigal is given…
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New Poem: Park
Park They will come here all of them in different groups and all of them do what they shouldn’t ………………………….like smoke on benches let dogs run wild climb up slides and push. This is the park where, on common ground through uncommon years we take our turns and rebel. © KB 2013 Was in…
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Poem for Maggie
Dear Maggie if people cared less about your passing or felt less willing to pay for your parade this too was what you did to us. And if people turn backs or appear a little harsh and cruel then remember, iron lady this caring less this selfishness was you. So let the pomp begin and…
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New Poem: ‘I Am?’
I Am? In a corridor she turns among elbows and bags, asking among songs and candles he turns inside himself asks too while standing, boardside desks arrayed with demanding eyes she wonders just as he must have as all must have – still do – the singular searching piercing interrogation even God Almighty even the one of…