I’ve been thinking about binaries in poetry lately and came across two gems to share. Continue reading
poetry
Big rain – haibun
Rain like a bastard. Always big weather round here, more than our share. Don’t need radar animations or a weather app: just stick your head out the window, clouds all day escarpment gone and here in this last sunshine all it takes is… Continue reading
Bird box
a bird exists inside this five-foot box
made for beak and wing, Continue reading
Saying goodbye at 5am
The land is a book waiting to be read
but if it’s not read is it still a book, Continue reading
Pantoum – Poetry and loss
(trying to explain Maurice Blanchot to myself, twice!)
In the everyday use of poetry, words carry ideas.
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20 Poets – Cordite books
Free (yes, really) Continue reading
Odysseus at the front bar
This looks so much better on my site – come visit
or view the PDF here…
it should be about something.
like love Continue reading
season’s anagram (autumn comes)
the wind moans in the cote
as it tunes canto (odd muso)
on manse doors and eaves.
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waiting
the grass has gone blonde (and died), the trees are hanging down and the black earth is cracking open. Continue reading
feathers
the early rising
the water falling Continue reading
Peter Frankis writes 