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"I’m really sorry I missed your house. Even the Easter Bunny can make mistakes."
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"So bite the heel that walked you home in the rain"
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Changes by the River
'It doesn’t matter how stagnant we feel, The seasons keep on flowing'
Be
"Travelling into The sunset, a new cowboy ready to ride"
The Felling of Yggdrasil
"Worlds branch off like capillaries From an oaken aorta"
Ten Days Troilus Waits for Cressida
"Above me, the Milky wheel turns round and round"
Number 19
'Walking along the Edgware Road It's ten o'clock at night I glance down at my phone amongst it all And it's your name that glows in the light'
Rice-cakes
'a few more days of worrying about weddings, wondering why we seem to copy the lives of those we wish would love us'
Two Poems
"The memory is hazy, the photographic still of the memory I keep in my head, more so."
Love from,
'You're in all the details, taking up the small spaces/You're filling in the gaps between words in this poem.'
Tesco
'something in the bagging area/I looked down, and it was me, crouched there'
hands/face/space
"how we feel now must be the way that stars feel all their lives"
Requiem for a marriage
'I wanted you, all the more because I knew / Someone else was getting you. / What does that mean now?'
Addressing the Unknown
'Let's watch the sun making its paperboy/rounds tapping on the window and shedding/off its flecks of glow'
Growin’ up with Emily
'three girls sat dangling out the doors of a car, sea salt and suncream'
O Cypris
'O Cypris! I must rank among those who seek your nectar.'
It is the light
"It is the light/That engulfs me/Its fingers of dust waltzing ever so softly"
Time Alone
"The echo in the chapel chimes as I take my unlikely seat."
The Potter
"Did you ever meet the man, Who lived once in this place?"
Atonement
'I rue the lost hours and days: a finite life, this one'
A Love Letter to Living With Scientists/An Apology to My Housemates
'I am not sure what broke me. I think it's a close tie between the discussion around NaCl when I asked for the salt to be passed down the table or when someone genuinely asked the group what their favourite way to measure the centre of mass was.'
Drawing Attention
'I'm making mistakes I'm crossing them out I'm making it ugly I'm making it shout'
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