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NEWCASTLE CREATIVE WRITERS


David Gairdner - Dolphin
Dolphins are right here. Doing beach ball tricks gladly. They are in our hearts.
David Gairdner
Nov 241 min read
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David Gairdner - Bunch
A bunch of grapes sit. The grapes are bunched together. The green grapes sit still.
David Gairdner
Nov 171 min read
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David Gairdner – Knife
• That's not a knife, this is a knife. • Was it one of the Modernists who painted a picture of a • knife and said this is a knife? • Then another guy painted the same picture and said this is not a knife . Writing is like art, it is a deception. I am holding a knife in my hand right now. I am bleeding. Blood is falling from the sleeve of skin above my wrist. Did this happen? Maybe it did. If it did, the image you see in your mind is not quite like the actual incident. Could I
David Gairdner
Oct 312 min read
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David Gairdner - Table
Table grapes still sit. The light lights and warms the grapes. Grapes still green in bowl.
David Gairdner
Oct 271 min read
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David Gairdner - Quality
Grapes are in a bowl. I see them still green sitting. Should I eat a grape?
David Gairdner
Oct 201 min read
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David Gairdner
A voice exits sleep: "I had a bunch of flowers" I dreamed something else.
David Gairdner
Sep 301 min read
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David Gairdner
The candle store scents, They will last longer than life, if you're not careful.
David Gairdner
Sep 301 min read
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David Gairdner - Spark
Spider's cathedral: Rainbows unbent shaping light, Sparkled stigmata.
David Gairdner
Sep 291 min read
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David Gairdner
Sep 220 min read
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David Gairdner - Exasperating
Exasperating, exacerbating milieu, tripping down or up.
David Gairdner
Sep 151 min read
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David Gairdner – Lemon
-       Citron is French for lemon.  -       My mother didn’t know that, but she knew she liked leather seating. In her sophisticated...
David Gairdner
Sep 81 min read
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David Gairdner - Spring
Spring finds the fulcrum. The leaves fall upward and gift; flowers, freshest fruit.
David Gairdner
Sep 11 min read
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David Gairdner
Aug 250 min read
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David Gairdner - Guy
I am just some guy. It is just my opinion. I should just shut up.
David Gairdner
Aug 181 min read
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David Gairdner - Age
Founded balloons… Silken worms form the loom Lunatics feed off the womb. Guarded meal worms …  Death of old age. The elixir of the...
David Gairdner
Aug 111 min read
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David - Cold
Don't sleep with livestock. You will catch the strangest things, and make hens jealous.
David Gairdner
Aug 111 min read
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David Gairdner - Bridge
Bridging difference Walk to the edge and jump off. Shylock bleeding out.
David Gairdner
Aug 41 min read
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David Gairdner and Wenjun Duo - Bridge
I form into bridge. Today has been a big week. Now for child's pose. David Today has a been a big week, from the downward dog, to forming...
David Gairdner
Aug 41 min read
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David Gairdner - Wind
Trees brushed against sky. "It's like a movie," she said. "How is that?" I asked.
David Gairdner
Jul 281 min read
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David Gairdner - Predator
"Miss, what's history?" "Cataclysm forming now. Tea once hot, sits warm."  We dreamed to be them. When scraping marrow from bones, and...
David Gairdner
Jul 211 min read
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