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An extract from ‘Tulsa’

Book cover Corner of My Mind

I’d like to know you naked, so I could better understand you dressed / Clothes get between us, hiding what’s behind your eyes and mine,” I write, in a poem named Tulsa.

These lines perfectly reflect the tone of a collection of poetry that exposes my poetic side, revealing far more than nakedness could.

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