Wrestling Emily Dickinson

The life & opinions of AJ McKenna.

Friday, 19 June 2026

Large, Loud and Visible

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 Gray Bloc tactics are a good idea if a change of t-shirt helps you disappear, but I stand out even when I’m indistinguishable, even dressed...
Sunday, 10 May 2026

De garrotibus non disputandum est

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  (I started writing this poem back when the government's plans to ban pornography which featured 'strangulation or suffocation'...
Sunday, 19 April 2026

The Next Day

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  They'd never dredged the like of it:  a mound of lego, sodden books and posters, toys, pig-Latin plaques, ceramic shards that once wer...
Friday, 17 April 2026

A Work of Mercy

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Looking at a dog the night before she dies, she will remember a conspiracy of kindness: the cat they called Old Smokey, smuggled in from the...
Wednesday, 8 April 2026

First World Contempt

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I would like to make him live one day the way he has made others live. I would like him to wake up in rubble with dust in his belly and thro...
Tuesday, 7 April 2026

A Whole Civilisation

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  When planes flying from our bases 'destroy a civilisation' tonight, what will we say?  When people of that civilisation  scream ra...
Friday, 3 April 2026

Good Friday poem

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  Noose pin worn by members of the Israeli knesset to show their support for the introduction of the death penalty for Palestinian political...
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