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through a glass, brightly by Mandy McDonald

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Admin
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this is the way the thing began flickering in the shallows turquoise, violet, lemon, half- seen, caught in jade water the effect of refraction was to make it seem closer clearer than it really was perhaps the tide ebbed, or perhaps the rocks advanced: sunlight is tricky   Mandy Macdonald is an Australian writer living in

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Somewhere Unaccounted For by Dominic Bond

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Admin
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We fall blinking in to darkness to the unravelling of trees pits of dying yellow deforming our blindspots. With our hands tied, fields are flooded, new bodies of water taking shape in an undignified manner. Treasures are buried deep in to a merciless ground. Nothing speaks out, resigned to grey after the decadence of summer. Sometimes

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Offer by Di de Woolfson

Posted on January 6, 2015 by Admin
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One ice axe, well used. Three snow anchors suitable for approach slopes. Set of ice screws still in box. Pitons and pegs with plenty of use in them. One each adze and narrow hammer. Two blades, one with holster. Various leashes. Range of thermal gear – to fit medium size man. No longer required due

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Cold Hands by Ann Cuthbert

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Admin
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I have cold hands. You press your back against them but the adage does not hold – my heart would thrill a cryogenicist.   There have been men before you who set up such a wailing when I palm-printed their bare shoulders. One I gave a pair of frozen wings, feathery   veins cracking into

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The Trawlerman by Robert de Born

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Admin
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Inside the dogger: knotted nets, entangled fins and red-rubbed scales where hooks tore cheeks; the old bulb fails and sinks the scrimpings of South Wales’ scraped waters into darkness, wet and slippery as an elver’s neck. A trawlerman, unorthodox, concealed in this caliginy of mangled plunder from the sea a vervain-scented treasury a simple unwaxed

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