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January 20, 2020

Bomb map

Posted on January 20 2020 in Poetry

I saw the bomb map yesterday,before I was exploded: paper-bag-brown tags like a deflated concertinalitter the streetsspatter the battered pastlike lost letters, sorted butno longer expected And ghosts, too –captured light emergingfrom another dimensiondisplaying the precision of chance –one house…

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Woman’s shocking message brought my tree tumbling down

Posted on January 20 2020 in Articles

Family trees are awkward customers: they can lead you badly astray. For many moons, thanks to sloppy detective work and a series of guesses, I was under the impression that my mother’s family – the Browns – came from Cambridge,…

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