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Month: December 2018

Morgenspaziergang

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The lagoon is full of machines: small ones in the reeds
tocks and bocks, little clocks; a larger one maybe a fox (!) Continue reading →

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December 20, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
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The Christmas Comet (46P/Wirtanen): missed it

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Street lights back-scatter
particulates from the Stack,
Continue reading →

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December 18, 2018July 17, 2019 peterfrankiswrites
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Lions in the rain

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Starlight Circus, Warrawong, 10 October 2018

The chicken wire holds the savannah down,
rain drips on their musty manes. Continue reading →

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December 11, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
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Summertime Sadness

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a dreamy inside edge played on to
a tree full of clown-face rosellas Continue reading →

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December 7, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
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A delay on the Northern Line

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The Night Express slow on wintry tracks. Continue reading →

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December 4, 2018December 5, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
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the blank page

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I find myself to be a dromedary
That has run short of water Continue reading →

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December 3, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
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