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‘On Scarborough beach, I played football’, by Paul Allender

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On Scarborough beach, I played football.     This image is one of my new paintings. It is autobiographical and consists of two halves. One half reflects my early life growing up in Neepsend, an industrial area of Sheffield. The other half depicts me, as a child, on the beach with my football.     by Paul… Continue Reading ‘On Scarborough beach, I played football’, by Paul Allender

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‘Hagalaz’, by Ruth V. Chalkley

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In Lithuanian, runoti means both “to cut (with a knife)” and “to speak”.       Hail: Hagalaz       Pain, loss, suffering, hardship, sickness, crisis.        Spirit-breaker        Faith-Taker        Misery-Maker        Joy-Stealer        Dream-Breaker        Shadow-Hound.            Thought-Waker        Friend-Fooler      … Continue Reading ‘Hagalaz’, by Ruth V. Chalkley

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‘Focal Signal Intensity Enhancements’, by Maureen Miller

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I’m poeming this poem  from a forest-boreal  transition zone  anticipating intense  public reaction  to my poem against the bony mets  that XXXX up my posture & infiltrate our nat’l backbone  its prostate biopsy analogy lost/inapparent in the sagamore gloam this spine unresponsive  to the pre-patent analog  that is my poem   by Maureen Miller doctorwritermaureenmiller.tumblr.com [This… Continue Reading ‘Focal Signal Intensity Enhancements’, by Maureen Miller

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‘The exorcism of Spasmodic Torticollis’, by Holly Hirst

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‘This is my best exorcist impression,’ I tell you with a grimacing grin. I tell you it’s a horror movie to make you laugh. So that you can laugh at the girl controlled by demons. As her head turns full circle on her neck. As her smile screams with silent blasphemy. Because if you don’t… Continue Reading ‘The exorcism of Spasmodic Torticollis’, by Holly Hirst

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