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A Man Trapped in the Instant of Falling
The car is parked and I’m in the driver’s seat. People swirl with bags of clothes and toys for pets. Flat pack furniture washes against the paint work. In the rear mirror I see you’re asleep. I don’t know who … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Poetry
Tagged absence, absent bunny, amnesia, Benjamin F Jones, car park, child, children, danger sudden drop, depersonalisation, DPD, driver, father, fatherhood, flash, flat pack furniture, forget who I am, forgetting, graphite bunny, memory and recall, memory loss, mental health, mental states, newborn, parenting, prose poem, retail park, Retrograde amnesia, semisomnia, semisomnium, sleep, sleeplessness, snapshot, tired, vignette
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Old Canal
The trees were arranged as shown in the diagram. The ambient air temperature was measured at 23°C. The sun was chosen as a light source and connected to a power supply. The resultant beam skimmed over the wetlands like a … Continue reading
Posted in Flash, Prose Poetry
Tagged autumn, autumn bunny, Benjamin F Jones, blackberries, canal, captured moment, cardiff, dad, discrepancies, discrete packets, experimental prose, fatherhood, forest farm, graphite bunny, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, observation, passive voice, past tense, primary carer, prose poem, prose poetry, quantum theory, radyr, radyr station, refracted light, school science, science experiment, stay at home dad, third person, to slit experiment
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Shrapnel Cheese
Shrapnel cheese and pork pie fragments. Feeding frenzy around a table, patchwork papered with crepe. I look for someone I know as I load up your plate with marshmallows in pink and white. Skip sweets in a bowl which look … Continue reading
Posted in Snapshots
Tagged Benjamin F Jones, children’s parties, chocolate excavation, creative prose, Creative writing, fairy, fatherhood, feeding frenzy, full time dad, graphite bunny, human interaction, marshmallows, odd man out, parenting, party bunny, princess sandwiches, sandwiches, shrapnel cheese, snapshot, toddler hurricane, toddler life, toddlers, vignette
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Drain Warmth from the Pale Stone
Sophia gardens. First day of September. Mist forms droplets on the handles of the buggy. Helicopters spin to the pavement and crackle beneath my feet. A man sits on the bench drinking coffee from a thermos. His cap is pulled … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Poetry, Snapshots
Tagged autumn, Benjamin F Jones, buggy pushing, cardiff, coffee from thermos, communication, Creative writing, dad, daddy bunny, fatherhood, flash, full time dad, graphite bunny, new dad, pale stone, Prose, prose poem, prose poetry, second trip to the city, September, short prose, snapshot, Sophia gardens, splendid
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Car Parking
Sun feathers in the creases of my jeans. The light is calked over the car window and pressed into my skin. Soft cheese, pork salad, Cheshire; rolls individually wrapped in tinfoil, labelled with a marker pen in shorthand. I feast … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Poetry
Tagged archive 2006, babies, buy me, carpark bunny, consumer frenzy, consumerism, consumers, creative prose, Creative writing, fatherhood, free radicals, graphite bunny, gridlock, life, Prose, prose poem, prose poetry, prosepoem, semptember carpark, Sense of place, shopping, snapshot, travelling
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