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My latest missives & musings
Looking into Kaa’s eyes
April 17, Napowrimo 2026. Today we’re asked to respond to another poem. As the prompt’s poet responded to his own work, I thought I’d follow suit. I purposefully wrote this poem to test readers, to make them uncomfortable in their expectation and assumption. I wanted to raise questions about what is socially acceptable in discourse…
Sulphur Flame
I wrote the original of this poem back in 2019. I hoped to explore a number of themes including the duality of language, audience expectation, dark interpretation and how innocence is easily lost in a cynical world. I rewrote it some years later (see second version below) for performance poetry as I thought the original…
Eddie
April 16, Napowrimo 2026. Today’s prompt involved writing a poem in which we describe something that cannot speak, and what it has taught or told us. I remember being chastised at school once for simultaneous insolence and dumb insolence. I learnt a lot from that, but I suspect it was not what the Deputy Head…
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