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The Snow Child

In the hushed caramel of dusk, a face puckered and pale against the ice cold pane watched the children, cheeks … More

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Jo Bryant, poetry, writing

Words

Words tantalize me. I disappeared into them as a child, on journeys that would otherwise have been withheld from me. … More

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Jo Bryant, life, Personal, thoughts, words, writing

Black Like Me

  It was the summer I turned fourteen that I wandered into a dusty book shop in Maroubra. The shop … More

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Black Like me, book review, books, Jo Bryant, John Howard Griffin, life, non-fiction, people, Personal, racial prejudice, racial prejudice in America, racial prejudice in the 1950's

Two-Headed Coin

You said you’d love me, till I lay cold in a box of walnut with silver handles; now I turn … More

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life, love, Personal, poem, poems, poetry, writing

There’s something about St. Patrick’s Day

I’ve been told there a wee bit of Irish in my ancestry. As St. Patrick’s Day nears I have a … More

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Blarney Stone, druids, funny, humour, Ireland, Irish, Leprechauns, Oh Danny Boy, Shamrock, St Patrick's Day, unicorns, Who is St Patrick

Love

she speaks in the way she moves her purr at my touch silences me

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animal photography, black cat photos, cat, cat photography, cats, Jo Bryant, pet photography, photography, poetry, small stones poetry

The Hunt

Rounded yellow eyes track movement up a wall, life’s short

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Jo Bryant, pet photography, pet photos, pets, photography, poem, poems, poetry, small stone poetry, writing

Tui

standing out amongst the dawn chorus a lone Tui takes the solo  

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animal photography, bird photography, birds, Jo Bryant, New Zealand Tui, photography, poetry, small stone poetry, tui, writing

Notes

A new CD, the notes bounce across the carpet.

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Jo Bryant, poem, poems, poetry, small stones poetry, writing

Envelope

An envelope larger than the rest, familiar scrawl I’m not forgotten

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Jo Bryant, poem, poems, poetry, small stone poetry, writing

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