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Saturday, December 14, 2013

Crossley-Holland: "Comfort"

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COMFORT Who said anything about comfort? Those syllables do not rhyme with zinc slakes or ice-bright sky. The sea is grinding her spe...

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Crossley-Holland: "The Language of Yes"

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THE LANGUAGE OF YES The world's wreckers are at their games and everywhere it is late. Words words words a fury of words hype and...

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Crossley-Holland's "Idling"

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IDLING The way waves fold into themselves, sigh, then play themselves out high on the foreshore, a man draws and redraws the crescent ...

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Crossley-Holland: Do You Ken?

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SALT- COMPOUNDS salt-scythe sweeps onshore, corrosive and hissing; pins back ears; rifles each stay, shroud and halyard. creek-wood...

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Crossley-Holland: "Faithful As A Wordfisher"

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BEACHCOMBER Faithful as a wordfisher, there he goes, old magpie of the foreshore! Face chafed and chapped like driftwood. Parcelled s...

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Crossley-Holland's 'Leaf-Girl'

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LEAF-GIRL 'Round and round the trampled ground between the flaming maple and the black walnut, and out across the nickel rink t...

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