Day seventy nine – Mark Doty

I’ve gone back to reading Mark Doty’s poetry over the last week. Hs poems have a deceptive simplicity. They look as if they must have been easy to write,, they flow like a conversation with a familiar friend. Doty takes the ordinary – a retriever fetching a ball – and turns it into a meditation…

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Day Forty Six

An acceptance in the post from Orbis for a poem of mine called Mark Doty’s dog. It will be in issue 150 or 151.

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