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Gender Reveal
Is it excitement in the air or is there just a tension there among the people that I love, who await the gender reveal?
Jun 29 • Nick Cousins
The Tide Without The Storm
Beautiful, audacious eastern-rising son, cool your callow sojourn in the west. Your arrival heralds changing weather, fraught with peril and intemperate…
Jun 22 • Nick Cousins
Picnic
I can still taste the sun-warmed cheese we ate on a blanket in Botanic Gardens that July.
Jun 21 • Nick Cousins
The wall
There are a thousand reasons why I shouldn’t love you, But I will not dwell on them, although others wish I would. There are a hundred memories I keep…
Jun 8 • Nick Cousins
Eyebrow Appointment
I’ve got an eyebrow appointment tomorrow.
Jun 4 • Nick Cousins

May 2026

The Bangor Line
A beautiful summer evening after the sun has set leaves behind a bright blue sky at almost ten at night.
May 25 • Nick Cousins
Summer 1992
Hot tarmac and diesel fumes with a subtle hint of cold vanilla.
May 6 • Nick Cousins

February 2026

Remorse
A micro-fiction story of remorse for my first killing.
Feb 11 • Nick Cousins
Sleep and other fairytales
I lie here wrapped up like a mummy in the sheets.
Feb 7 • Nick Cousins
Imbolc
The end of winter, let it be here soon!
Feb 2 • Nick Cousins

January 2026

Equilibrium
Sometimes I just close my eyes.
Jan 17 • Nick Cousins
Kiosk
A poem for busy days
Jan 8 • Nick Cousins
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