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Tag: identity

Childhood

Posted on 10/11/2020 by Dove Grey

“Look mummy! There’s a shape-changer on the roof! First it was a man, and now it is a cougar!” “-Don’t be silly, boy, shape-changers don’t climb onto rooves.” “Yes yes! I saw it! He’s there.”   The sun beat down on the mother and son, Their little tea party on the deck continued. Howard finished…

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The Past

Posted on 13/10/2020 by Dove Grey

A yellow moon glowers, Over my homely mansion. A werewolf stalks on the pavement level. Here in the trees are the huge boughs, Of the neighborhood. We dwell, in the night-time, Above the ground, In a complex of closed apartments, Made of wood. The sickening dim light of the streets, Shines up weakly at the…

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Living

Posted on 04/10/2020 by Dove Grey

I was reared in the Church of Don’t-Worry-About-It, Under Saint Nobody. Nobody has stayed by my side all my life. He never criticizes, or he doesn’t answer back. Nobody walks with me, So I walk with nobody. He’s fine. I went with him to the Wailing Wall, Where I began to bang my head. My…

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3 Poems Which Aren’t Entirely Sure

Posted on 31/10/201901/11/2019 by Dean English

1 In the slackened-off momentum of a Holy day, the Machine left to idle, I put on someone else’s shoes, wore unfamiliar clothing, styled my hair a way I’m not accustomed, found the walk, in the shoe, and allowed that through, limb and thought. Then put that self to walk, at the rural fringe suburban,…

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from Short March Walkabout #2

Posted on 29/08/201926/09/2019 by Dean English

I’d misread the map and got off at the wrong station. it had an elevation which satisfied my sitting out the morning watching the trains leaving squealing into fog lit spectacularly; a lady crying, a barking dog, a shopping trolly shepherd in a hiViz, humming wires clicking above the tracks bolted into place on cloud-coloured…

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from Short March Walkabout

Posted on 25/07/2019 by Dean English

IV to lay—in the dark intoning in tune with the waves moaning in purposeless calm is to know this, I cannot, in the object hold (the) ‘myself’ inside this busted-lock of surf beach changing room without the cold suspicion that the ‘I’ who moves the green pencil across the narrow page of an complimentary Agriculture…

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from: Igo Ego

Posted on 17/12/2018 by Dean English

A honey bee has landed on my pen. It walks inside the cave my holding the pen makes, pushing its triangle head between the fingers the way small dogs burrow after objects meaningful to their ways. I was wandering the late morning where the river and the sea fill looking for clues to validate, or…

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what am I without you

Posted on 22/07/201822/07/2018 by Dean English

4 [an excerpt] what am I without you telling me? to look upon us, two of us in darkness, with barely enough skin lit to establish our age, the gender or the race unharnessed from your own density, even that against the odds beyond our reach, a some‘thing’ always is and doesn’t offer proof of…

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Midnight’s Height

Posted on 25/11/201620/11/2017 by Dean English

Note: Low Is The New High. 14.11.2016, 12.02am, the town where I live experienced a 2 minute, 7.8 earthquake, lifting the land by as much as 2 metres, creating, in the former lowest Lowtide line, the new Hight Tide mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ….

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