Writing Archive
Explore a curated collection of my writing, including psychotherapy insights, short stories, letters, and poetry, all compiled for easy access and reflection.
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the lights
of my new frontiers where people there wanted me here offered love wanted & to call me friend this other world some days the shadows come corner of eyes flutter in the ether half…
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Ian
Uncle Ian, been putting this off for some time as i don’t think of you much. or is it: i don’t think much of you? you’re the kind of cop gives the name for…
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this exile
never quite understood visiting back there looking for something to find might make me stay on that older land never realising for a long time the death hand they’d birthed me with spat me…
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sweet jane
standing on the corner waiting for your latest man i knew you when sweetheart mother 2 kids & your long-term working husband you the stay-at-home wife you gave all that up for a back-alley…
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Mandy
Dear Mandy, when we first met you didn’t register much: just the younger sister of a girlfriend, a girlfriend who became one of my better friends. the age difference back then meant more than…
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for a little while
he’s asking what happened? ah we fell apart (i try) wanted different things meaning? she wanted another man & i didn’t want her to go that way being a prick he says next &…
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might’ve beens
these regrets come to haunt those maybe’s ifs might’ve beens i’d be a rich man given a penny for the times the blues tried to hang on rattling through memories loves gone wrong misunderstands…
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had
do you love me? she’d ask always late at night & drunk vodka bottle half gone i’d say yes of course any point of reason done she never asked sober having the truth already…
