
Somewhere in the distance, a train station disgorges the second-class morfs from their transport, to process them before they're allowed into the metropolis. The knife-edge of tension is often ripped into all-out conflict.
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You don't have to be in a good mood all the time, especially if you're being annoyed by a numbskull with a Nikon. A limerick adds to the grizzly details.
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Carl Sagan, the astronomer, called Earth's animal life 'parasitic'. We feed off those unable to defend themselves (and some that can.) What might happen a visiting race of intelligent -- but different -- space-farers use exactly that definition?
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An Arctic Wolf can be thoughtful when resting. A poem about a far-away love.
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Set in an imaginary Ireland of the 1950s, a simpler and less industrial time. A summer's day, blue skies, green fields, bad roads and a large grey building. A place where a factory cattle truck is received by a herdsman with a unique talent.
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A snow-bound Schloss Hohenzollern, under a forbidding sky. A simple photograph of a very evocative scene, in south-western Germany.
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A ballad of love, from a wolf to a fox, in the long-ago time when such thoughts were true. One of my earliest attempts at a ballad style, this work was written in 1996.
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