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We were always in the car that year the price of having a nice house in a nice area get in get
in it’s time to go where are we going our friends the supermarket the cinema the mall just for
a drive between banks of jaded shovelled snow

It’s impossible to foretell what will provoke tears, the sort
that well up and tip over while you hold onto the kitchen sink
waiting for them to subside…

    Mean sister We are stuck in our own words, not hearing each other. Sixty-somethings, we may as well be six, throwing sticks down the beck or poking dolls eyes out of their sockets, scribbling on their perfect faces. We are well rehearsed, know our cues,...

I heard a calm, clear voice.
But not with my ears. Not my outward ears.
It wasn’t madness…

tall as the absentee house.
How the girl moored her hands and heart charmed by riven bark…

I dream I’m at the hospital
massaging your feet, your tiny feet

that I have freed from their tight
white stockings…

When fog falls over Rough Tor,
the world creaks
on the end of a string…

      Snow’s Reset The roofs blend with the snow-laden clouds, borders softened so it’s only memory that differentiates my space from my neighbour’s. The wet smell confuses pets whose footprints meander over territorial edges, leave crazed patterns like...