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 Apr 2022 Irving MacPherson
John Edward Smallshaw
Cricket
 Apr 2022 Irving MacPherson
John Edward Smallshaw
Cricket
The Olde Worlde Tea Shoppe
established
nineteen sixty-nine
tells me all I need to know
about
the condensing of time.

The village green has seen
better days,
the people too.
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 Apr 2022 Irving MacPherson
Frances Raeburn
Don’t
 Apr 2022 Irving MacPherson
Frances Raeburn
Don’t
Don’t fall asleep on me
I know you are tired
as am I
But please
don’t fall asleep on me
not now
If you do
I fear
we might never
ever
ever
wake up again.
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 Apr 2022 Irving MacPherson
Frances Raeburn
Suspect
 Apr 2022 Irving MacPherson
Frances Raeburn
Suspect
I have many many
friends
and a few of them
I suspect
are real.
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 Apr 2022 Irving MacPherson
Frances Raeburn
Us
 Apr 2022 Irving MacPherson
Frances Raeburn
Us
Let me lie in between us
so I don’t have to
become one of
us
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 Apr 2022 Irving MacPherson
John Edward Smallshaw
Off the North Face.
 Apr 2022 Irving MacPherson
John Edward Smallshaw
Off the North Face.
I went walking through the gallery
looking for that painting of Valerie
and all I found was one of
Mallory,
what mountains we men must climb.
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 Apr 2022 Irving MacPherson
Kurt Philip Behm
Signare
 Apr 2022 Irving MacPherson
Kurt Philip Behm
Signare
The part you transform
is that part you possess
The rest is pure folly
—petals scattered to the wind

(Dreamsleep: April, 2022)
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