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May 2016

Christopher Mollison
In Poetry

The Importance of Stillness

Copyright Urban Mole 2016 I was on the train recently, staring at the rails and the blur of sleepers between. If I very quickly moved my eyes against the direction of travel, I caught a glimpse of an individual sleeper and its neighbours; I was able to slow the flow…
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Christopher Mollison
In Literature

The Book

Kipling, Rudyard  / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain It's chasmic, the fall of words down lines curved by the half open page to the black gulch below, where shadows form on sunny days or in the half light, oblique; at fifty degrees and cool as the cover is under the…
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Christopher Mollison
In Poetry

Crow Work: A Kill

Copyright: Faber & Faber A Kill's power is in its fifteenth line, in the only spoken text of the poem: ``It's a boy!'' It's a fulcrum and it prises the perception of a brutal, lingering death to show a birth. But it's no gift.
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