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Poetry Drawer: Foreshadows by Ian C Smith

Posted on 13th March 2023 by Deborah Edgeley
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Sounds, ship and sea-formed, rigging’s creaks and groans, the rush of bow-split water a hiss of displeasure, they pursue fate, jettisoned provisions a sore loss.  After Tenerife, starless but dry, no rainfall since approaching the equator when the cursed pumpkins … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: Lost: Molly’s Audition: Juvenile Invention by Ian C Smith

Posted on 28th June 2022 by Deborah Edgeley
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Lost He lost the land of his birth’s winter snow,lost heart-throbbed life fragments morphed into dreams,lost his family that day long ago,a desertion scarring his self-esteem,stony heart cracked, future free as the sky.He lost chance opportunities, too few,cherished keepsakes, old … Continue reading →

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Pantry Prose: Shelter by Ian C Smith

Posted on 19th February 2022 by Deborah Edgeley
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We moved into a house within the grounds of a psychiatric hospital where the fine Australian poet, Francis Webb, was incarcerated many years earlier in rural NSW, its streets bordered by majestic European trees. My wife had accepted a key … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: Epilogue: Hitchhiker’s Paradise by Ian C Smith

Posted on 1st October 2021 by Deborah Edgeley
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 Epilogue Walking in early light, wetlands a short drive from home, where, like the rest of the world, all is quietly closing due to this ravening plague, part of my way parallel to a usually busy highway.  I think of … Continue reading →

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Pantry Prose: My Insatiable One by Sabrina Mei-Li Smith

Posted on 26th May 2021 by Deborah Edgeley
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         The breeze releases Ceris’s hair. It tumbles down her back as the artificial wind subsides. Trains vanish into the miasma of tunnels and eyes adjust to a world not ruled by sex, absinthe and narcotics. Her world is private. … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: Micro Poetry by Michael T. Smith

Posted on 2nd July 2020 by Deborah Edgeley
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Chapter 2 Moving forward, I want my disease to be my companion,so she can help me write my canon. Eclipse I borrowed the eyes of an eclipse,to wink Eden under the table, I saw a secret, which is to say … Continue reading →

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Books From The Pantry: We can order the same or taste each other’s (Part 3 of 3) by Mark Anthony Smith

Posted on 3rd April 2020 by Deborah Edgeley
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Spiced lentil soup I am in awe when Marie video calls me. She lives about four hours away in the car. Yesterday, she showed me the old trees in the deer park. The gnarly oaks have been there far longer … Continue reading →

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Books From The Pantry: We can order the same or taste each other’s (Part 2 of 3) by Mark Anthony Smith

Posted on 2nd April 2020 by Deborah Edgeley
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Carrot Cake The chiropractor asked if we are married. Marie said we weren’t. I smiled as I was able to remind Marie about her past medical history. “I’m not interrupting, am I?” Marie laughed despite her back ache. Afterwards, she … Continue reading →

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Books From The Pantry: We can order the same or taste each other’s (Part 1 of 3) by Mark Anthony Smith

Posted on 1st April 2020 by Deborah Edgeley
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Sausage rolls As a girl, I can’t see her now. Sometimes, I think I can see her back then. But memories are fuzzy things. They are elusive or become mixed up with something else. Some of my reminisces are concrete. … Continue reading →

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Books from the Pantry: The Boy Who Drew The Future by Rhian Ivory: reviewed by Kev Milsom

Posted on 2nd February 2016 by Deborah Edgeley
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‘They pushed us onto the street. Maman said they’d called her a “sorcière”, a witch, told her they’d heard the rumours in the village. The fat one pointed at the road to Halstead. “Look for a tall building with gates … Continue reading →

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