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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction: Small
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction. A selection of my poems, and the occasional piece of flash fiction. Monday, December 09, 2013. Small dogs are made to fill the. Hollow behind your knees,. The crook formed when you’re. Lying down having an afternoon nap. Small children are made to. Lie against your chest, ribs,. Midriff, lap, held in the arms,. Relaxed, softly snoring. A dog behind the knees, back to. Back; a child asleep in front, both. Bodies to body adapting, both. Asleep, sotto voce. Im not usuall...
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction: Nestbeschmutzer
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction. A selection of my poems, and the occasional piece of flash fiction. Thursday, August 02, 2012. The following is a piece of nonsense mixing English and German, the result of. Suggesting to me that I write something on the German word. Nestbeschmutzer. (This was after he'd read my previous piece of English/German nonsense:. Schmoozing is an art I don’t indulge in:. Wheeling-dealing’s not my scene,. Persuading those who need persuading,. Grovelling over dinner tables -.
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction: At Night…
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction. A selection of my poems, and the occasional piece of flash fiction. Friday, January 17, 2014. This house tells of. I discover a hall full of. Mantels not dusted,. A fly wakes at four. Desperate for daylight,. And an orphaned cat. Whispers at the door. This is a revised version. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I came across this wonderful German word yesterday, and its even more wonderful meaning. Its pronounced - if my long-distant German . The following is a pie...
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction: Backpfeifengesicht
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction. A selection of my poems, and the occasional piece of flash fiction. Thursday, May 03, 2012. I came across this wonderful German word yesterday, and its even more wonderful meaning. It's pronounced - if my long-distant German lessons serve me right - Bark fie fen gay zicked. (Please note, this is. English speakers have no word for. A face that badly needs a punch. The German compound word is. Which could easily seem to mean. A face like a smelly drain. I was thinking y...
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction: Villanelle
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction. A selection of my poems, and the occasional piece of flash fiction. Friday, November 18, 2011. Reading Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled. At the moment, and in particular the chapter on Villanelles. The Villanelle is a bit akin to a Sudoku, or a Cryptic Crossword: everything has to fit or it falls apart. It's a form, and a quite specific one at that. There are five stanzas of three lines each, and the sixth stanza has an extra line. My last, or. I miss them, but it...
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction: Blackbird - I think
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction. A selection of my poems, and the occasional piece of flash fiction. Thursday, December 12, 2013. Blackbird - I think. Blackbird - I think. For years I was convinced it was a blackbird. Me it's a thrush. Oh, what the heck, blackbird or thrush,. This bird sings like no other, no thrush or. Blackbird known on earth, his song is. Unique, spontaneous, jazz, a riff - or. Several dozen of them - or a. Street magician’s magic, a. Pack of cards pitched through the. Gigatowndun...
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction: January 2015
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction. A selection of my poems, and the occasional piece of flash fiction. Wednesday, January 21, 2015. The results of the Dunedin Robert Burns Poetry Competition were published in the Otago Daily Times. This morning. The winning poems aren't in the online edition, though they did appear in the printed version today. I'd imagine they'll turn up on the Public Library website. And are quite lengthy. Mine has the merit of being short and mostly not. Preferring it to To a Mouse.
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction: #gigatowndunedin twibe goes to lunch launch
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction. A selection of my poems, and the occasional piece of flash fiction. Wednesday, September 10, 2014. Gigatowndunedin twibe goes to lunch launch. Gigatowndunedin twibe goes to lunch launch. Tyre hits the kerb with a graunch,. Shake my head, tell myself to stay staunch;. Don’t know what’s bigger: the haunch,. We’re meeting for a lunch launch. But we’re not launching a lunch. From Twitter I’ve gleaned, had a hunch,. That a bunch have come for a munch. There’s too much.
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction: Proctalgia fugax
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Mike Crowl: Poems and Short Fiction. A selection of my poems, and the occasional piece of flash fiction. Thursday, January 10, 2013. I'm not usually given to writing poems about physical ailments, but while the topic in this poem is, in reality, quite unpleasant, it also has its humorous side. The condition known as. Is like squatting on a bed of tacks,. Or rather, one gigantic tack. PF attacks a person’s back -. That’s inner anal - by. Cramping up some muscle, which. Fast asleep, then wakes you with a.
