no answer ... it swings and swings ...

Quietly press keys then hum sympathetic strings to brightness, to eloquence, to stars.

With each breath, life sways the metronomic pendulum in my chest.

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I wake
to a soft murmuring—
rainfall

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Murals — press II press A collaboration like no other, from The Hooghly Review in India and a former Press Pause contributor. In the height of 2025, former contributor Francois Bereaud asked us to help him get this beau...

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across, drag marks that mark marble mark that marks drag across

Kent Tonight - Tuesday 21st April 2026 Catch up with all the latest news from across the county with Chloe Brewster.

If anyone is interested my short interview on my new novel, Longshore Drift, is at the end of this programme
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Today in Life on the Midlist: Endorsements/Blurbs are a terrible system. Here's what happened to me: mailchi.mp/d879f4118ebf...

We all have a purpose in the natural world - a hanged man can demonstrate physics quite effectively.

Boo not again!

Each shadow a shift in the corner of my eye, a recognition of what can be hidden, what can be softened, what can be true.

This infinite cord, and the pendulum never swinging back.

“It all depends,” says the tired old pendulum.

spring exhibit a baby gibbon pendulum

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am I fickle or is a pendulum stuck in my head

As the pendulum swings.

The pendulum ticked like a time bomb counting down the short years I have left on this earth.

Time > wrecking ball > clock.

Time hammers into my bones, with the weight of a pendulum.

How quickly did your love swung right like a pendulum.

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in this stillness, where I forget time—the to & fro—on a reverie’s arm

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"PENDULUM" APRIL 21 Epistemic literary logo One sentence poetry prompt... Background image of an open book and a small vase with flowers on an off-white surface.

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April 21st - PENDULUM

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the pinched wing of a bug she will not squash

dull as dead piano key

puppy chasing her moon shadow

It's this little game we play - who can hit the hardest?