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Here it is the boundary with its unfindable sadnesses - by Jean Portante

{ Poem }

Here it is the boundary with its unfindable /sadnesses…

Threshold - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

Our strength is our difference. / Dinny fear it. Dinny caw canny. …

A Window - by Sami Muhanna

{ Poem }

Between the sunrise and me there’s a window. / So I greet my old friends the morning air / and…

January 2003 - by D. M. Black

{ Poem }

After 60 years my gums are not so good.
/ I dental-floss them in the one-sex toilet.
/ Returning, clamber over wife and daughter
/ And…

January, 5 - by Alison Fell

{ Poem }

Off Lindisfarne
/ the waves shiver like monks
/ at their ablutions.
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/ Under high horizontals
/ of ice-cloud, the sky
/ scrubbed clean as a dairy.
/
/ The train darts north,
/ hungry…

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