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    Hector
    Hector
    Hector
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    Hector

    By Chloe Cocking

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    "Honest, funny, timely little stories. Raw. These poems read as if composed of the broken speech scattered around the edges of a very big Quiet. Funny, insightful, playful and painful at times. Who is Hector? I'll let you find out." - Malcolm Van Delst, Author of Do the Wrong Thing "Cocking's poems are well-honed, like a scalpel. Sharp enough to slice cleanly to the heart; to dissect her subjects and lay them open for you to see their inner details." - Christine Grimard, Contributor to Saving Seeds "Hollering back at paltry domination, the poems in Hector transgress the fictions of now with rare and essential human things: truth, brilliance, thought and heart uncompromised. Here, intensities of knowledge & experience burst traditional confines and reset us, call us out, insist a world with all of us in it." - Shauna Paull, Author of roughened in undercurrent
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFilidh Publishing Corp
    Release dateJul 23, 2021
    ISBN9781927848623
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      Hector - Chloe Cocking

      Hector

      Poems by Chloe Cocking

      Copyright

      © 2019 Chloe Cocking

      ISBN: 978-1-927848-62-3

      Second Ebook epub Edition

      Filidh Publishing, Victoria, British Columbia

      Cover Design: Chloe Cocking Cover Image: The Snake

      is licensed under CC BY-ND 4.0

      Read about the license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nd/4.0/legalcode

      Do not reproduce by any means this book, or any portion thereof, without written permission of the publisher.

      Dedication

      For Rachel and Holly Fight the power, girls.

      Quote

      You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm

      ~ Collette

      (untitled 1)

      common is not

      never was      exactly common

      common is not the word we need no word

      i know for what i know we need

      Church Bell

      every thing outside is trying to kill me

      i said

      nancy laughed

      she thought i was kidding

      her bare feet describing gentle

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