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As the year ends, I am pleased to confirm that this poem is one of the top twenty selected for the permanent Poetry Archive.

Bradfordafter Jamie McKendrick Bradford the milly, the chilly, the everywhere hilly, the Yorkshire, the canny, the Rajasthani,The Polish, the Irish, the Romany, the homeless, the homesick, the Manningham native,the dislocated and the keypad-gated. Bradford the hyped, the skyped, the lifetime saved-for,the quixotic, the Quaker, the fortune-maker.The fresh start, the loan shark, the business start-up, the kohl-eyed, the streetwise, theContinue reading “Bradford”

Sensing a chill in the air, I brought the universe indoors with the tomatoes. It had been out there so long, I felt it was too old for nights out and needed me. The moon came first and went straight to the cat basket where, unlike the cat, it seemed happy. Grateful, even. Sirius madeContinue reading “The Great Indoors”