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Poetry Drawer: A Man in Neutral: Mystery Woman: Death Of Miss America 194..: Two for the Sno-Cat: The Living and the Dead by John Grey

Posted on 1st February 2021 by Deborah Edgeley
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A Man in Neutral I won’t cut my arm just to see myself bleed.Nor will I roam the cemetery trails,as if the dead are the perfect company for the likes of me.Not that I’m about to take up dancing.Not with … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: The Gift by John Grey

Posted on 15th September 2019 by Deborah Edgeley
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Must be my lucky day. Look what I found on the sidewalk in a small Midwestern town at the turn of the 21st century. It’s almost midnight. The one street light is swinging like a pendulum. I saw it gleaming … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: Good Question by John Grey

Posted on 7th September 2019 by Deborah Edgeley
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A roller of fat cigars, the hefty guy whose arms are inked with devils and angels, short-skirted women showing enough leg to start the dogs barking, and an old lady selling flowers – I have ignored them all just to … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: Your Flea Market by John Grey

Posted on 10th July 2019 by Deborah Edgeley
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A box of old record albums –Billy Joel,Donny Osmond,The Eagles,Partridge Family –ugh. And the covers are worn,the vinyl is scratched –no one’s going to buy theseeven at 50c apiece. Same as that ratty Cabbage Patch doll.Or the Miami Vice lunch … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: On The Border by John Grey

Posted on 20th June 2019 by Deborah Edgeley
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Humiliation barely registers in those downcast faces.I dare you to imagine where they come from,feel the beatings, suffer the horrendous rape,then watch the beatings, the rape of others.When were you ever woken up by soldiersin the middle of the night, … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: Three Poems by John Grey

Posted on 29th November 2018 by Deborah Edgeley
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BEACH DAY Summer’s here, blue and cloudless, hot and steamy with the sun at full throttle. A gull perches on a wooden pole, feathers ruffling, blood dot on its beak. A pelican scoops some sea up in its pouch, sloshes … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: Two Poems by John Grey

Posted on 20th July 2018 by Deborah Edgeley
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In At The Kill Pigeons on the rooftops, a body of prey, hawk claws grip telephone pole, take a hundred different forms, a picture perfect pose the right way to measure – look up, a symbol, changing at the blink … Continue reading →

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Inky Interview Special: John Grey, Australian Poet, USA resident

Posted on 24th June 2018 by Deborah Edgeley
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Tell us about your journey towards becoming a poet. Sometimes in my early teens, I had made up my mind that I was going to be a writer. I tried just about every variation on the written word over the … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: An Awkward Meeting in a Coffee House by John Grey

Posted on 30th May 2018 by Deborah Edgeley
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Talk is mostly small talk. Despite all I’ve done, all I know, I can’t get by the weather, her sweater, how she’s done her hair. I don’t understand why it’s all so awkward. It’s not that I expect us to … Continue reading →

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Poetry Drawer: Five Poems by John Sweet

Posted on 25th May 2020 by Deborah Edgeley
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owego poem, from a great distance or all of us fucked like dogs in the rain or maybe just some of us beaten with the myth of god or of us raped but all of us left for dead and … Continue reading →

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