hand-knit drystone walls,
land enriched with seaweed stitch –
feel the warmth

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Susan Richardson
Susan's Journal of Literary Things

December

Gunshot-poinsettas in windows –
mauve smoke seething
in cold, twilit yards.

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Claire Askew
Read This Magazine

DAWN SHIFT

Everything you left will wait
yawning and stretching my arms

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Charles Lambert
Charles Lambert

A pheasant searches the long grass;

slow
deliberate
steps
head bobbing,

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Julie Singleton
Julie Singleton

Rain flattens and shines a mosaic of fingery oak leaves on my front walk.

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Will Collum
Serpentinarium

the winter shadows on the snow are as long as memories

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Janet Smith
Mid-Life Clarity

christmas night
the candle burned
half way down

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Matt Morden
Morden Haiku

How far did you travel just to melt on my nose, little snowflake?

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Victoria Macdonald

Lake City: a man sweeps fall into a dust pan, drops it in a bag.

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Dana Guthrie Martin
my gorgeous somewhere

The light ebbs away slowly from a sky the colour of pale tea and ink stains.

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Katherine Woodfine
follow the yellow brick road

Bright green lichen
gloves the cold joints
of twig bones.

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Annie Kerr
Ink haven

mustard crusted torch of a moon pierces straight-laced net curtains drawn by the cold world

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Gordon Mason
Catapult To Mars

Bright sunshine shows up the emptying trees, gardens glazed in moisture.

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Matthew Friday
Matthew Friday

beside our new garden chairs, a gull - comparing whites

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jem
-the sound of splinters-

Pine Lake

A turpentine moon in widowed sky
strips a path across the varnished lake.

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Gordon Mason
Catapult to Mars

at thirty miles an hour
light poles walk toward me

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Will Collum
Serpentinarium

Frost standing upright on the fencepost like iron-filings on a magnet.

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Lorna Senior

Taste - panic

Tension makes
My mouth self-conscious
It is drier, more bitter
My tongue just an obstruction

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Rachel Fox
More about the song

a plate of candles
all the icing licked off

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Richard Powell
Still in the Stream

Meditation:

the process of thinking about thoughtless thinking

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S R Schwarz
Cosmic Rapture

Ceefax headline

Dead woman rescued from sea.

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John Loader

You recited my poem
so badly that
it seemed like one of yours.

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Martial: Epigrams
Translated by Ian House

Deep frost glitters in
the headlights of passers-by;
crows eat the apples

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Rachel Green
When the Dogs Bite

A red scarlet cloth flaps in the bald hedgerow

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Julie Singleton
Julie Singleton

There's blackness
and there's this
place

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Jeff Fleming
nibble - a poetry magazine

This dog understands the nature of sticks, how much they need to be thrown.

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We liked it but not quite enough

she still waves every day the redundant woman

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Matt Morden
Morden Haiku

Orange balloons, candlelit from within, float across the sky, disappear in darkness.

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Juliet Wilson
Crafty Green Poet

Daisies star the grass - the sky emptied its catch while we were sleeping.

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Maggie Sawkins
Maggie Sawkins

my round dumpling of a tiny girl pushes deeply at the golden squash and ivory rice cereal that went down so easily and bedevils her best efforts to give it an equal exit

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rm mist
What The Muses Leave Behind

Night Drive

Our headlights’ treasure:
eyeglint, a nightjar, jewels
in a feathered fist.

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Isobel Dixon
Isobel Dixon