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Having been immersed in memoir writing for many months, I decided to write a small poem every day for a year to keep my poetic hand in. I've posted them to Instagram and facebook as written – where, to my amazement, people love them – but on this blog they are sometimes subject to later rewriting.
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Showing posts with label Invasion Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Invasion Day. Show all posts

Monday, 9 January 2023

A day in January ...


A day in January.

Celebration? Or remembering

invasion — 

and all the horrors that followed.

Why can’t we change the date?


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I emerge 

from my left brain 

to gaze up

at a hill of vines

pouring over the fence