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Old/new poem, 'Cleared Off', has been added.

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[2011-05-29]
Days of Roses

The anthology, featuring five of my poems and the poems of others from the regular reading event, is now available to buy.

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Sunday, like a forgotten danger, grabs you.
Only now in its clutches do you recall
with clarity what it put you through
last time. Sunday, it is inexorable,

Sunday is a laugh. It is too late to do anything,
you’ll have to wait it out in the early dark
and pray Monday, its unpredictable twin,
stays away, that the week won’t start,

time will permit you to walk the autumn path
through leaves in crisp air, undemanded,
until you make a decision at last;

you will be clearing out before Christmas,
heading rural, living in unnamed days;
every one a self-employed, a writer’s bliss.

[Sunday]