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Hungry

I think you’ll get it.

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The old man 

 

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Re-knitting 

  

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Deep blue 

A death.

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Bricks and mortar 

To Karl.

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I can 

Limbs strewn like branches from a tree after a storm.

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Love 

If we only meet  On the other side If our link’s forged Strong  Here Then, I shall do that careful work. (Because forever is something else.)

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Love as Melancholia

I recently watched The Paradise, a BBC series based on Emile Zola’s novel about a department  store in the late 1880’s. It is delightful, all two seasons of it before it was cancelled. There are so many things I could write about it: its cinematography, its characters, the dialogue. The moments when the heroine, a […]

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Unequal Terms

I am a lawyer by trade, and not one who enjoys reading judicial opinions in the common law. I’m not a fancy lawyer, you understand. When it dawned on me my first year of law school that reading opinions was a whole lot of what law school was about, I thought I had made a […]