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Life - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

Handbound volume

A Birthday - by Edwin Muir

{ Poem }

I never felt so much
/ Since I have felt at all
/ The tingling smell and touch
/ Of dogrose and sweet briar,
/ Nettles against the…

Existentialist - by Sheena Blackhall

{ Poem }

Where do I live?
/ In the space between Monday and Sunday
/ In the retina of the crow’s eye.
/ I am a skin of…

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