Second Prize, 2017 Literal Latte Poetry Award.
This place can break your heart says Phil Levine,
describing the soft light of eucalypti, the barking quail,
the overbearing odor of orange blossoms
at his home in California….
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Readers’ Comments
- On "My Own Personal Mr. Crabtree": My family lived in Clyst St Mary from about 1961 and my brother and I regularly fished the Bishops Court lake in the early to... – Geoff Arnold
Jan 28 - On "Living Remains": Usually I quit reading in the middle of a story. I couldn't lift my eyes from the screen until I read the last word on... – hoolahoopp
Jan 27 - On "The Enormous Typewriter": Wow. This is very good. I hear Pirsig struggling with Phaedrus. Props. – oldironnow
Jan 19 - On "Wild Horses": I love your first sentence. Having worked in hospitals for years it is very refreshing to imagine the flu as a passenger; real tangible alive. – Avigail Halberg
Jan 14 - On "Love Trouble": great story... funny and weirdly erotic... – kathleen seltzer
Dec 11 - On "My Own Personal Mr. Crabtree": I forgot to add, many thanks for a brilliant read. – Chris
Dec 08 - On "My Own Personal Mr. Crabtree": I've lived in Clyst St Mary for nearly 40 years. The pond is still there, though it looks very overgrown. I've always wanted to try... – Chris
Dec 08 - On "The Mysterious Crotch-Grabbing Handshake: Hard Lessons in Vietnam": I laughed very hard at this post. I am vietnamese and it is a cultural thing. Its not sexual and is only done to the... – Don
Dec 06 - On "C'mon Pigs of Western Civilization
Eat More Grease.": i'm really about to fail this whole IOC thing – A Student
Dec 05
- On "My Own Personal Mr. Crabtree": My family lived in Clyst St Mary from about 1961 and my brother and I regularly fished the Bishops Court lake in the early to... – Geoff Arnold
