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Friday favourites – 14 Jan 18

diving-valley baths

Summer’s here (here at least) so it’s time to dive in to poetics Continue reading →

2 Comments
January 14, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
billionairesdivinghumourpoeticspoetryreviewsswimming

Another exoplanet

pk-manhole-road-cropped

and
despite
the obvious click-bait
including artist’s impression —
a cool grey sphere
transiting the full fiery face —
it was the qualifications I noticed Continue reading →

5 Comments
January 7, 2018January 7, 2018 peterfrankiswrites
exoplanethistoryhumourmoving housenew poetrypersonal history

That one special day

socks-white

TWO SOCKS ARE TALKING. IT’S ALMOST MIDNIGHT. Continue reading →

3 Comments
December 21, 2017December 21, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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On the hyperbolic death of neo-liberalism (2017)

carnival_b&w

This looks so much better on my site.

(after Guy Rundle, The Saturday Paper, July 15 2017)

Socialism is back.
Gone for ages, like your Aunt at a rave party ‑
a pause in the playlist and there at the end of the couch: ‘Oh hi.’ A little awk. Continue reading →

4 Comments
December 16, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
economicsfound poetryhumourneo-liberalismpoetrypoliticssocialism

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
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Quantum quadrille (ii)

DIAS-1942-b&w

after Erwin Schrödinger

Put a cat.|.poem into a basket.

Continue reading →

2 Comments
November 7, 2017November 7, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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Quantum quadrille (i)

solway conf-1927

 

 – after Davisson and Germer 1927.

Kick a poem through a grate like this | |
Continue reading →

30 Comments
November 6, 2017November 6, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
dversehumourpoemquadrillequantum physics

(kind)

chocolate-wheel-b&w

hu
man (kind) ?
wo
man  (kind) ?
Sweet or un (kind)
(not really the marrying (kind) ) Continue reading →

1 Comment
November 2, 2017November 2, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
advertisingchocolate wheelhumourpoem

Safe

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Forget the sass of the satirist – spell it out: plain please.
And if some are sulkier for their likenesses and aliases
on-screen for any super-user’s pet pretense
let them fester I say; Continue reading →

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October 26, 2017October 26, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
anagramhumourkeep Australia safenational securitypoemsecurity

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