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This year, I set myself the foolish task of trying to write something every day, and what you see here is the result. None of this is finished, polished, or in any way good. It's usually a few lines at the end of the day when I'm tired, my head's broken, and this nonsense spills out of it onto the page. Feel free to comment away, and if you think anything has any potential then let me know and I might have a go at working on it further.

But hang on, where's the first month? You've ripped us off! I hear you say... Well, yes. I have been writing since the beginning of January, but it's taken me a while to get the blog up, so everything here is a month old.

Friday, 3 January 2025

Wriggling and writing

I remember my grandfather's ears
Soft, downy wrinkled things
Framed by frost-white hair, 
Glasses arms and a stubbled jaw. 

Unremarkable ears until
With crooked eyes and crumpled grin
He'd turn his head and make them dance
Up and down like marionettes. 

Fascinated, foolish and determined, 
I sat for hours on my bedroom floor
Mirror in hand, pulling every muscle
Isolating that single signal to move. 

And here I sit again with mirrored page
Pulling at muscles I know are there
Asleep and unused over the years
Slowly forcing ink to flow. 

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