Free Verse

By Peter A. Reynolds

Fourteen poems to make you think, make you chuckle, make you cry.

Aphasia • Ice Cold Beer • Change • Luv U • Snap • Well Done Mammals • That Dress • The Boy in the Buggy • Solid as a Rock • Cycle Wey • Re-enactment • Red Legs • Ashes to Ashes • Window Box

• Language: English
• Publisher: Peter A. Reynolds
• Release date: May 23, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311899194

Peter A. Reynolds

Peter Reynolds has written for theatre, radio and television. His work includes TV sketch shows: Touch Me I'm Karen Taylor, Revolver, and Man Stroke Woman; Radio plays: Per Ardua ad Terram, and Garden Tiger; Radio sketch shows: Dead Ringers, Concrete Cow, The Right Time, Ayres on the Air; and the Radio 4 sitcom Potting On which he co-wrote. Encouragingly, many of these shows can still be heard on Radio 7, if you don’t mind listening at 4am. His first novel, Getting a Grip, is available in ebook, audiobook, and paperback.

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Contents

Aphasia

Ice… Cold… Beer…

Change

Luv U

Snap

Well Done Mammals!

That Dress

The Boy in the Buggy

Solid as a Rock

Cycle Wey

Re-enactment

Red Legs

Ashes to Ashes

Window Box

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Aphasia

Doofer. Doodad. Thingummabob.

Quick bridge across the verbal void.

It's normal.

Who hasn't sighed, scouring the sky for traces of an actor's name?

You know, the bloke in whatsit. Blow the bloody doors off. Him!

But what when gaps endure?

Black holes of talk

devouring meaning;

slowing the clock while we,

facing raised