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The Weight of Elsewhere 'Part Two'

...To: The Immigration Office  
Date: November 11th, 2024, 9:15 AM  
Subject: Application #47291  
Focus: Limbo

To Whom It May Concern,

I am writing from the plastic chair
in your fluorescent-...

When Life was Simple

...When we lived beneath thatch-roofed houses,
Curry simmered in pots,
Flames flickered from firewood gathered
From hills and thickets.

When bullock carts creaked
Under paddy loads,
Harvests rea...

A City Beautiful

...
       Ottawa, Ontario
once a desolate snowfield
      now, a city of Gothic 
and Victorian buildings downtown 
with stunning glassed towers
         a mingling of architecture's
copper-roofe...

A Secret Escape To A Heavenly Ancient Place

...Tell me
Have you ever felt you could runway
Far away to a secret place
Where time stands still
The hot sun mostly shows its beaming face.

Well come!
Take my hand
And I'll take you to that pl...

A Dying Winter

...
It was a harsh, hard going season.

“It’s a dying winter, lad,”
he said, crunching words around,
a gnawed pipe stem.
Briefly embers sought a place to disappear.
Cinder gray eyes, set deep
in...

Once Upon a Long Ago

...


~ Once upon a long ago...
Three kids were raised on my family's farm
I am the middle child who spent more time 
working in the fields with Dad, my Galahad,
for I found household...

Wild West Rest Stop

...A carriage stops by a water trough and an
empty roofed stable with a long bench. Driver
helps folks and gets a drink. He returns, tells all
they leave in one minute. A man of no rank says
...

Autumn

...Schools ring out with the sighs of freedom lost,
empty hearts break as a summer love moves along.
Bright wildflowers fade under the burden of frost,
birds fill the air with the tunes of migrating ...

The Value of Books

...The value of books


Late afternoon, the sun has left the terrace and is in the back throwing up dust before reluctantly slinking west and sinking 
into the sea beyond the seas.
The townscape is...

Old and New 1: Circus

...OLD AND NEW 1  : CIRCUS

Giraffe on anxious heels
bought in Sandton, toddle 
along with intense haste
a dream point unheard
lipstick smudges, mascara 
leaks of AK47 dust she rifled

Bullfrog...

Boy and Barn

...Bitty birds scuffle and flounce
under the roofed-in.
Barn dusted, rafters crust and whiffle.
Snuffle go the whiskered,
the mousy muzzle's
all along the bent beam wood.
A pepper powdering
in th...

Gulls Ride Upon the High Sea's Tongue

...What crashes into them
is the oceans voice beheaded.

Seabirds skim upon verge and crest,
a green swell of rise and fall.

Open mouths trawl the air
then plunge into a rising wave
to scoop a ...

Danger Island Dumb-Dumbs

...We knaves had orders both explicit and dumb:
Scare the blazes out of a management bum.
Thunderstorm weather rocked wide Prince William Sound,
Feisty gales pouring rain all around.

My partner an...

An Ill Wind Blows

...Under storm we are today eunice outside is blasting away 
The dome in London taking a hit,  partly de-roofed and some parts did flit
Onto the river being not far, over some of its surface,  damagin...

Thrilla In Manila - Philippines Coliseum

...
Well, here we are in the Araneta Coliseum
In Cubao, Quezon City in the Philippines
To witness two modern boxing Gladiators
Their prowess, stature, about to be seen

This will be the th...

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