Ian Brownlie

The Blood Moon drips into her shopping bag over carefully chosen shrapnel from drones and missiles. Her basket gets heavier. She only came in for one thing which was peace. Not on the shelves. At the till shop assistant asks for her blood not money. She wonders how she will get home. She didn't expect to lose so much.

I have a new 75-word story in the wonderful @paragraphplanet.bsky.social today.

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Thanks Mike!

Haha. Fair response!

Thanks Sue, very kind

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I took a long walk off a short poem... (Very nicely done, Sue.)

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an argument i we had been arguing for a while probably most of the evening about what you don’t need to know but neither of us were right neither entirely wrong i can not do this any more she said and bear in mind english was not her first language she threw herself back into the lumpy sofa legs splayed dramatic guttural sigh and she said i’m spent i laughed first then she laughed too tipped off to some missed context by my comically raised eyebrows and later after i’d explained the lurid connotations of the word we both laughed together ii i must admit that scene never happened the woman whose first language was not english a fiction i can’t even muster up a hair colour for her i’m a fiction too because if i’d argued with someone for most of an evening that evening would be done over sexual innuendo or not this would be a better poem if the incident had happened though i think that i would be a worse writer

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Someone is addicted to my poetry - and it’s the editor of this journal - @zoomburst.substack.com - which arrived this week. Sooooo happy! #PoemsAbout

Gawain the green knight opening a letter sealed with wax

Little Alex Horne in his studio chair with the caption "so a simple task: land a fair blow anywhere on the green knight. One year later meet him at the green chapel, receive the same blow yourself."

A cut to a wider shot showing Greg Davies in his throne turning to Little Alex Horne subtitled "Well surely no one just ran up and whanged his head clean off."

Cut back to Little Alex Horne subtitled "Let's see Gawain first."

Looks like the original has been swept away by the sands of time.

Thanks Paul

Thank you, happy to hang anywhere near the coattails of someone like Shel Silverstein!

Thanks to those people who bought sets of my remaindered book ‘The Budgie Likes to Boogie’. I still have copies available for ridiculous prices, 30 books for £20, 15 for 10, inclusive of postage! Incluges 'Walking With My Iguana'.Just want them to have good homes. Reposts appreciated.

Well. This started off as a children's poem at least. Then it goes on a bit of a journey considering it's only 4 lines.

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Thanks to @thetoypress.bsky.social for another wonderful #wordoftheweek. Here's my offering.

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Today I will mostly be painting the ceiling in the bathroom, drinking coffee, cleaning the walls of the piano room, drinking coffee and starting the process of creating a longlist of poems on the Dirigible Balloon for the third anthology (and drinking far too much coffee).
JH 🙂🎈

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It was the first event like this I've 'been' to and I very much enjoyed all the poetry readings, well done everyone. (Just a shame I wasn't in the social/practical position to be able to interact more!) Best of luck with the book, Samantha.

cover art for For, On, or After

Many thanks to those who joined us for the launch party of 'For, On, or After' -- from the amazing JC STUDIO Press! Much love to all the poets who read and listened today. I'm so grateful for your friendship and support!
For, On, or After is available here:
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Thanks Debra. I hadn't really thought about the quietness of it, but you're right. Interesting!

Thanks!

Thanks John

SECOND SKINS (for Grace) clock watching peel myself from the claustrophobic pod and slide into a windbreaker shell in the queue for a New York lunch epidermis milking daybeams waiting for a skinless frank I nosh on a bench like a glacial erratic watching the reflections of the sidewalk stream around me behind a sleeve of steel and glass human hive mind hums a malignant drone under banks of fluorescent sun

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Took a little break from the polemical this week. Will put a reading in the comments.

The middle stanza especially is a bit of a fever dream (complimentary)

New theme just dropped 👀 🥳

Issue 14 opens for submissions on March 1st with special guest editor @steenahernandez.bsky.social!

And the theme will be...

TRADITIONS & RITUALS

(🧵 for full description.)

Ooh, interesting. I hadn't heard the song before but I certainly see where you're coming from. I should probably try and listen to more Talking Heads.