• Where You Are

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    A poem/musing in memory of my mother, Maureen. I see you still It’s in those small moments, you arrive And always without warning This morning, it was birds They flew into the air before me as I walked And there you were again present in this moment and made real Yet I cannot reach out

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  • The Love Song of Edgar and Amelia

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    ‘Antarctica,’ she says. The word, cool on her lips, like a brush of springtime air. It reminds her of Edgar, though she can’t think why. Did he ever go to Antarctica? She can’t imagine he ever did, but now, as she stares at the tablecloth, she can’t be sure.

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  • Tulips

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    ‘He looked at the field and tried to imagine it. Not just the colour, but the smell, the movement. Real flowers would have swayed in the breeze. He knew that much.’

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  • Crow

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    There’s a man in my neighbourhood who is trying to befriend the crows. At least, I assume that is what he is doing.

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  • Hollyhocks

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    I can’t remember exactly when hollyhocks began to bloom across Amsterdam. It feels as if, one summer, they were suddenly just there, reaching up through the paving stones and covering gable ends with wild abandon.

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