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Pot lid by David McLean

night slams down a sky
as lid on this sinful kettle,
burning us here
in this hell we live in
seething in our own stink,
this sweaty nothingness
we live in
sin

David McLean was born in Wales in 1960 though he’s  lived in Sweden since 1987. He has  been submitting seriously for about a year and, as of the end of October 2007, he has around 325 poems in or accepted by 143 magazines both online and in print. A chapbook “a hunger for mourning” with 52 poems is available from Erbacce press and Lulu at http://storeslulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=1277957. More information at http://www.myspace.com/david_mclean and a blog at http://mourningabortion.blogspot.com/, where there are links to various online publications.

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Tuesday Morning - by Jeanette Angell

The telephone rings
A small thing, a sound
Ordinary, and she reaches for it
In an ordinary way
She says hello
Her mind on the children
Her mind on the meeting
Her mind on the dinner on
Saturday night, his friends from
Kansas, she says hello

She says hello.

I love you, he says (more…)

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Mania

R–U–OK?

Yeah–Yeah

I txt back

before adding another dozen lines to my

essay. There’s a scrap of paper beside me (more…)

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Pot lid by David McLean

night slams down a sky
as lid on this sinful kettle,
burning us here
in this hell we live in
seething in our own stink,
this sweaty nothingness
we live in
sin
David McLean was born in Wales in 1960 though he’s  lived in Sweden since 1987. He has  been submitting seriously for about a year and, as of the end of October [...]

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