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a poem

Scary Creatures

Posted on 2013-04-03 by TJ

Behold the scary creatures I have known on land and sea and even in the air: a shark or two, sea-lions and a duck whose hurling form came headlong at my face in level flight. My eyes could see so … Continue reading →

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Insomnia

Posted on 2013-01-21 by TJ

What is this thing you speak of, sleep? A closing of the eyes? A slowing of my breath and heart? My mind in soft surmise? I think I’ve heard of it before, a myth from yonder times, a thing to … Continue reading →

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Rain

Posted on 2013-01-08 by TJ

Hard rain against the window, hollow sounds of glass reverberating in the storm; fat drops of cold hard rain, wind blowing down against the brittle barricades forlorn while crows in murders glide down through the grey and shapeless fog that … Continue reading →

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Identity

Posted on 2012-08-24 by TJ

I am made of rusty steel and old sun-hardened leather; flagellating ligaments of gut and binder twine. Behold the man: an awkward compilation of inadequate exigencies unversed in protocol. Analogue approximations rule my sovereign deviations while digital domains complete halting … Continue reading →

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Textures

Posted on 2012-07-02 by TJ

Cool textured shadows of the branches move across the mottled surface of this wall as summer breezes waver through the trees imprinting on my memory transience: the sun obscured by momentary cloud erases all but that which dwells inside, for … Continue reading →

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Moving Quietly Onward

Posted on 2012-06-17 by TJ

To each there falls a different way of life: some bold, some foolish, some content to stay within the bounds of these the fields we know where sturdy roots may set deep in the Earth while others more like me … Continue reading →

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Faux Tennyson

Posted on 2012-04-26 by TJ

It little profits that an idle man by this blank screen, amongst these barren disks, matched by an ageless vice I Tweet and roll unequal blogs unto a “Book of Face” that sorts and stores and feeds and knows not … Continue reading →

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Short Sonnet

Posted on 2012-04-07 by TJ

My two favoured forms of formal poetry are the Shakespearean sonnet and the haiku. I’ve also recently played around with Pushkin sonnents sufficiently to appreciate the form, but I doubt it’ll ever be what just falls out of my fingers … Continue reading →

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Balanced (fragment)

Posted on 2012-04-06 by TJ

Balanced here upon two wobbly legs I stagger like a toddler through the world curious, uncertain, just an egg that hasn’t hatched; a flag that’s not unfurled. A life of equilibrium imperiled by curious temptations, doubts and calls: Amontillado in … Continue reading →

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Yogurt

Posted on 2012-03-16 by TJ

He’s just a lump, a rag-doll flump a cuddly fur-ball sleeping ’til there’s a bump, then see him jump he hides then comes acreeping along the wall, trying to be small which isn’t easy for him ’cause all-in-all, he’s long … Continue reading →

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