Category Archives: Poetry

Leiston Old Abbey

Down the road from the Abbey we pile out of the car.
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The Uncles of Mui Wo

It’s long past bedtime, but we answer the call. My child grips plastic handles eaten by mold and grime, steers the rusty bike from the bellow of the frogs towards a flutter of moths that bat the glowing lamp. We ride into the heart of mosquitoes and steam, enter a hollow hull enclosed by iron [...]
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Thorpeness, England

We leave the swans behind and walk through wood and grass ahead a fairytale windmill a red house in the clouds.
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This Love

I wait at night for the slow boat to China.
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A Garden’s Bones

Bone. Bones shoot from the earth— a three-pronged fork. Hard and pale white stumps— jetties on green sea. Bones; a sturdy skeleton buried in tufts of winter grass hacked and sawed by the woman upstairs— one less to water, feed or tend a Death a Blessing. A curious sculpture these bones kicked by a tiny [...]
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Dragon Sought By Young Boy

Dragon Sought By Young Boy
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Aldeburgh, Suffolk

He runs out the gate to the stony beach of rocks and pebbles, his father’s abandoned birthplace a village on the gray North sea. His grandfather patrolled the streets. His great-grandmother, a postal worker who switched shifts,  missed the bomb, and found her friend’s left hand with its newly ringed finger on the street. His [...]
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Dragons After Dinner

You sit behind your father, ride fast.
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