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Simon Todd

New Zealand

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I am a Wellington based poet and I have been self publishing for the last 2 years. My work has been published in literary journals such as fresh, nineteen-o-splash, valley press and

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Kitchen - Charles Olsen

Sycamore, sycamore

Finely cut grass

grows victorious

dominated only

by the lawn mower

and the sycamore Tree.

When the seasons are

right hundreds of

helicopters launch

to combat

the ever entrenching

children

that play under

the sycamore -

that throw helicopters

in the air

and watch them float,

fall and float under

the great sycamore Tree.

Butcher & the lamb

When the butcher

says to the lamb

“Good bye,

I’m a

vegetarian.”

One must

have tied shoe laces

and carry on.

But when

there

are no

salads,

and chickens

hang where

the lamb

once

dangled.

One

must

have

tied

shoe laces

and carry on.

My invisible emotions

Oh, I have slept

so much I no longer

dream.

Thou-lord!

Do you hear?

These pale streets,

they freeze, so

not even a car

dears to brace

the ice.

The townsmen always

gather at

churches, praying,

afraid, it’s the end!

For the end is always

near.

My emotions,

hold me hostage

for I live like the

townsmen,

always hiding.