Saturday, April 27, 2019

The Importance of Poetry by Bruce Hodder

I wrote it and the sun came up.
I read it and I healed the sick.
I published it and raised the dead.
I woke alone, bad breath, limp dick.







Bruce Hodder lives with Michelle in Northampton, the most statistically average town in England. He has been published in quite a few magazines over the years, most recently ‘Academy of Heart and mind’ and ‘Winedrunk Sidewalk’.

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