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Part time poet, full time librarian, student of the delights of milk chocolate. Likes books, milk, paddling, poetry, scribbling, chocolate, notebooks, sea, piers. Not necessarily in that order. All work copyright cih.

Mannequin

Layers of artifice lining the shelves
To make you look what you're not

Satin and padding and ribbon and lace
To promote what you haven't quite got

An illusion in making, a conjuror's spell
Or a teenage girl's high school hell
©cih11, 22:21, 30.01.11

(Anti) Social Network

People sitting alone
Connected by invisible thread
To others
Sitting alone
That they'll never see
Have never met
© cih11, 7:48, 30.01.2011

Pop goes the 80s

Saccharine sounds
You brought me
Spoke to my teenage heart
My angst accompanied
By Morrissey
The Cure
For all my good times
© cih10, 16.11.10

Orange Crush*

T(a)inted flesh
© cih10, 16.11.10

*(Bromley tops fake tan use in country)

Big Society

So proud in
Low slung jeans
So young

Your mother didn't know
Cheeky smile in
Schoolroom photo

On show
In a million papers
Badly printed

Who'd know?
That an 8 year old
So cool
Would bring a gun
To school
©cih10, 04.08.10