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Month: November 2017

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alexander-black and white

The old men talk about Skopje at the pool where
I do my twenty. Drum-tight bellies becoming boulders.
Swim? Never, but they can’t wait to get their gear off and recline
– bronzed Aristotle and pupil – on the warm cement. Continue reading →

15 Comments
November 29, 2017December 1, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
Alexander the greatchangedversepoetrysonnetswimming

Musca domestica (for Seth Brundle*)

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My own fly
attend(s) never tires
schools me
in futility. Continue reading →

4 Comments
November 24, 2017November 25, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
dverseflyhouse flyhumourJeff Goldblumpoemthe great Aussie wave

The bodysurfers

bondi-cropped

lift together in the wave
as if for a moment
there was something
greater than us. Continue reading →

14 Comments
November 21, 2017November 26, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
body surfingdversehumourpoemquadrille

Different everytime

wave-energy-dooley

A shore, somedays a dream,
black and silver fish torpedo
thru transient glass Continue reading →

4 Comments
November 17, 2017November 20, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
beachdrowningoriginal poemplastic wasteprometheus

How’s your commute?

Tokyo_Verbeek-Jan

Check out Jan Verbeek’s On A Wednesday night in Tokyo, 2004 – along with 40 years of German avant garde television – at the wonderful – ubuweb – All avant-garde. All the time.

 

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November 15, 2017November 15, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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Poets Speaking up to Adani eBook call for submissions

Join the poets speaking up to Adani

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November 12, 2017 peterfrankiswrites

Friday favourites for 10 Nov.

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(a little late)

If you haven’t caught up with the latest edition of Cordite – do yourself a favour. Continue reading →

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November 12, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
ally river carnivalcordite poetryFriday favouritegulf pinespoetry

Eight views of a Lego® block

lego brick

(i)
Among everything moving —
the gulls and the kelp lifting and again
or slumping in the early heat
Lego® is still. Continue reading →

26 Comments
November 9, 2017March 11, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
environmentlegoplasticspoetryWallace stevens

Hyperbole

The Hourglass Nebula

 

[Dear WordPress readers,
this looks so much better on my site]

Comes the last allusion, now the final verse. Continue reading →

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November 8, 2017November 8, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
creationdversehumorhyperboleouter spacepoempoetry

Quantum quadrille (ii)

DIAS-1942-b&w

after Erwin Schrödinger

Put a cat.|.poem into a basket.

Continue reading →

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November 7, 2017November 7, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
Erwin schrodingerhumourpoetryquadrillequantum physics

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