Peterborough Poets

Sick country in ERCode YellowStatCalling Dr. Kildare, Hawkeye, Marcus Welby, McCoyLarge gun tumour out of controlMay be too late for chemotherapyStatImmediate surgery recommendedPatient is agitat...

https://wardmaxwell.com/2022/06/08/gun-control-in-the-usa%EF%BF%BC/

I’m reading Raymond Carver and I’m thinking about my friend Michael – not just because he recommended Carver to me, but also because, it seems to me, Michael writes a lot like him. Call it ...

https://wardmaxwell.com/2020/06/12/confession-for-michael-dennis/

Racky Rocky, quite a name, isn’t it? Got some poetry to it, unlike some of the names the high and mighty end up livin’ wit’. Actually, it’s short for Raconteur Raccoon, get it? It’s all...

https://wardmaxwell.com/2020/05/15/raconteur-racky-rocky-raccoon/

here’s how we get rid of money First, we build robotic food factories, then we give food away for free. Except it will be healthy food limited sugar, salt, fat, meat. People will have to learn ...

https://wardmaxwell.com/2020/04/10/coronavirus-nineteen-three/

before anyone goes viral we all know good times end, nothing lasts forever but who needs forever when it comes to you and me we live in the inbetween the kindness of each other the people we’ve...

https://wardmaxwell.com/2020/04/09/coronavirus-nineteen-two/

today’s blessing is it possible to be thankful for too much to say, this isn’t what I asked for, perhaps it’s not mine, that label on the package that says, “You,” may not mean “Me?�...

https://wardmaxwell.com/2020/04/08/coronavirus-nineteen-one/

I‘ve always been my worst enemy. Everyone agreed I had that special sparkle, that inexplicable shine that makes you a star except — I just gotta get my glow on. Actually, not like that, it�...

https://wardmaxwell.com/2020/04/02/friendly-firefly/

We’re the originals … the only ones. No one could ever move … like us, let alone … make people laugh … or just enjoy themselves. We weren’t stuck in Christmas either… oh no, we perf...

https://wardmaxwell.com/2020/03/25/brothers-cane/

That, in the end, is the sheer audacity of my neglect, rudimentary rabbit—you know why they call me that? That’s what it said in the script, for those shots when all you see is the back of bu...

https://wardmaxwell.com/2020/03/20/rudimentary-rabbit/

You want to know the worst thing that can happen to a flower? I know what it is, can you guess? I’ll tell you what it is. Take away a flower’s song, stop her singing; take away a flower’s d...

https://wardmaxwell.com/2020/03/18/black-eyed-susan/