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GPH24: "A Bowl of Donkeys".

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thirty-three acres of sky (more or less) form a bowl of abstract jasperware, and under it the coffled donkeys huddle, hunch against the easterly that slices from the Urals. low tide has pulled the sea to the horizon, barely visible from here. few children brave the chilly sands — few adults either; only (now and then) a hardy dog appears, reluctant owner hauling on the lead. both are careful not to stray too close to where the donkeys’ hind legs tense to kick impertinent intruders off to where the placid tide is on the turn.
April 26, 2026 at 8:10 PM
rock-rex.bsky.social
GPH11: "Dragon Ride" (very much a first draft)

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jade dragon frozen in the middle air and in the middle of a rictus, humourless, is stiffened in off-season rigor, promised riches nowhere to be seen. the sand around it’s rumpled by a thousand footprints, but its gaze is fixed inflexibly ahead. behind it helter skelter, wheel, and roundabout, still brightly hued though faded in the winter sun, stand in the selfsame state of hibernation, statues of their lively summer selves.
April 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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GPH01: "Winter’s Snow by Cleethorpes Pier"

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gelid ripples of the rising tide swirl slowly around rusted struts that rear above a grey-brown sunless sea they bear aloft a child of Aphrodite’s isle where long-remembered sunshine gleams in bubbles on the sizzling surface in a row of deep-fat fryers (extra-virgin olive oil deflowered sixty years ago) should the lovely child of Zeus set dainty foot upon this snowy beach she’d shriek and leap back to her shell and leave the pleasures of the winter coast to those of us whose frames are hardened to the eastern winds that saw our birth
April 1, 2026 at 5:31 PM