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    “Growth”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Feb 28, 2021
    • 2 min

    “Growth”

    If my fortunes should one day fade, And experience dull the sharp edge of fame, And popularity precipitate out of its false solution ...
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    “Projection.”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Feb 11, 2021
    • 1 min

    “Projection.”

    I’ve sunk my metaphors into unmarked plots – Like teeth into the skin of an apple (If you like) Wanting the sweet flesh to yield, To give...
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    “Neverland.”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Sep 16, 2019
    • 1 min

    “Neverland.”

    and we may never land on the value that sufferance cost us but Neverland is just one too many tube stops past caring and you won’t find...
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    “Lifeline.”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Aug 26, 2019
    • 1 min

    “Lifeline.”

    (Let’s take a walk) Knee-deep in nettles and the weather tipping change – Thick silt raising spirits Beating through the new-grown...
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    “Paper cuts.”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Aug 5, 2019
    • 1 min

    “Paper cuts.”

    We live by the light of shadows: Absent figures cut their silhouettes Behind Act V curtains, Where paper dolls flirt In the muted hush...
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    “Skyline.”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Oct 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    “Skyline.”

    The skyline is jagged with cranes – dipping fishing lines into tracheal tunnels, to dredge compliments out of the brine and the...
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    “Radiowaves”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Sep 13, 2017
    • 1 min

    “Radiowaves”

    4am draws a bath surrounding island limbs, nail polish the shape of foreign countries in chipped enamel, signalling semaphore...
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    “Focus”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Feb 5, 2017
    • 1 min

    “Focus”

    Remember staring at those Magic Eyes? I can sure remember being blind – Didn’t even know the trick I couldn’t find; Nose getting closer...
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    “Tower”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Oct 29, 2016
    • 1 min

    “Tower”

    This ivory tower is bricked up with soap blocks: So when hard Hope knocks she’ll knuckle-dust Fine white-fleck blizzards to remind us: ...
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    “Archaeology”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Sep 30, 2016
    • 1 min

    “Archaeology”

    They’ll dig us up in a thousand years And dust off the bone-idle lust: Tripping along the path to the weir Past the bolder-hearted...
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    Reflection II.
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Sep 23, 2016
    • 2 min

    Reflection II.

    Back to the start. “We should just go, I’ve had enough of this.” I’m sorry – What did you say? Mon ami, It’s really that simple: A...
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    Reflection I.
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Sep 21, 2016
    • 1 min

    Reflection I.

    Remember The sands can run backwards – And I’ve seen Right into the heart of somewhere intoxicating: The Archer has shot his arrow ...
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    “Nulla”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Jul 26, 2016
    • 2 min

    “Nulla”

    In tennis there’s Love in a zero, But not in Roman numerals. That’s a digit in absentia; Love is absent there. Nulla, void – Null: a...
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    “The Dreaming”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Jul 25, 2016
    • 2 min

    “The Dreaming”

    I dreamt a dream last night. I dreamt there was only One Life: That the universe was dreaming through us all, Meeting all motion and...
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    “Knight and Noble”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Jun 16, 2016
    • 2 min

    “Knight and Noble”

    “Knight and noble lie around him.” You’ve made your bed, to lie in. So lie in it. And don’t lie to me. For a minute I believed You...
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    “An Encounter”
    disturbtheuniversetc
    • Jun 28, 2015
    • 2 min

    “An Encounter”

    We slip-slide past each other, Like honeycomb-slick layers of graphite. I fall into you for an instant And inhale a future that lingers...
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    if you take care of the art

    your sister, Life

    takes care of the human part.

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    - John Forbes, 'Lessons for Young Poets'

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