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Isobel Cunningham has published short fiction and poetry. Her book, Northern Compass is available on Amazon. She was born in Wales but Montreal is her adopted home. She speaks French, Modern Greek ( it’s a fun story) and a little Spanish…oh, English too, of course. She welcomes comments on her blog and looks forward to chatting with you over cyber-space.

Only when I am ready

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Everything  in turn in the garden.

How quickly have we forgotten

daffodils or snowdrops.

Tulips wiped out by one very hot day,

their seedpods clipped and discarded.

Out come the stars of the show even as lilac

has crumbled to a brown cone, unsightly but daring the gardener

to clip.  Let me alone or no blooms next year.

Here stand iris, furled with green sheaths

after a night rain ready to open, not quite ready…

and peony and pink rose.  Almost ready, but not quite.

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    Sunil Bhandari

    Hope you are enjoying your daughter. Have a ear infection. Went to the doctor and am on anti-biotics and drops. Painful. I will survive. Painful.

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