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The flight into Egypt
- Grant Fraser, Anne Ramsay and Rory Harris
- 15 December 2015
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Behind them that beast of prey, that Herod, was still glaring doom from his trees of thorn, eyes bulging like a fox. And so, by night, Joseph squired their secret way, prayed the morning kind, prayed empty the brigand-haunted roads. Each day they made another cold remove, with the infant swaddled close, and their way marked by quiet nurseries of straw. Joseph kept close his thoughts, measured each horizon, always with the rumour of dark hoofbeats thrumming in his mind.
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Artefacts of grace
- Rory Harris
- 30 June 2015
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The fabric over your bed, a life of quilts made simple & held up ... of more than ninety years, taught generation to generation.
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An ode to thunder
- Rory Harris
- 28 October 2014
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you rattled the night around kitchen tables, water glasses filled with new wine healing history, roses on your cheeks & thunder in your heart
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A life of oranges
- Rory Harris
- 24 September 2013
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My father is still in the house he built with his wife; those hand-held walks after work from three suburbs away, to plant a garden as the bricks became walls, and as the fruit trees budded walls became rooms.
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Migrant factory worker's story
- Selected poems
- 06 August 2013
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The factory thrust its bloody quota past her six days a week, and she did what she had to. The gloves and boots and heavy denim became first and last lines of defence. She lost a thumb once, then a fingertip a year later. Language didn't come into it. She got sick and sacked in the same fortnight, then lay doggo for a decade.
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Perceval's delinquent angel
- Various
- 16 April 2013
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... is up to something, but will not reveal that tricksy intention ... it listens for the starting gun in the hands of a distant God.
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A keyboard or a drone
- Various
- 04 December 2012
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Have this photograph ... In the body strewn pavement see the cardboard huts. Digitally processed. Glossy finish. As I rattle my tin, may it rattle your conscience?
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Syria's massacre of innocence
- Various
- 19 June 2012
The hands which pressed triggers, wielded knives at innocent throats, were once the gentle sons of others playing in sand pits, shadowed from scorching winds, while I ferried my own to schoolyard bunkers and safe horizons.
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Learning to walk and to dance
- Various
- 13 December 2011
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When I last saw you, still horizontal, interrogating the floor, you'd begun reversing Kafka — a slow transformation from beetle to vertical human. Powered by a new locomotion, you steer yourself towards the stereo; music erupts into your world, is taken entirely for granted.
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Sun blast Eucharist
- Rory Harris
- 06 September 2011
the coast is jagged like a weeping cut .. the high end of town, pizza beer dusk ... it is here we have staked a life, counted off the steps and measured what it is we need ... hands dissolve in prayer.
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Ten short poems
- Various
- 02 November 2010
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Lost — Waiting for Spring — God owes me Royalties — Niche — Folding & Flying — Judas and Jezebel — Donne captains a ship of fools — Home — Loose Change — election
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Charlie Darwin
- Various
- 20 July 2010
Definitely simian features beneath those whiskers ... definitely a great big hairy chest .. Beneath that stiff Victorian coat.
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