SECONDCHANCES

Exploring memory, belonging, ambition, loss and second chances through stories, poems and reflections drawn from life.

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Closing Time

Closing Time collection cover

Twelve pieces about the small endings that arrive quietly while we are laughing, working, or looking the other way. Part one is here. The rest are on their way.

1 of 12 parts published

Enter the collection
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The Poems

Season Ticket grief · faith · endurance Communion friendship · grief · healing Shipwrecked despair · lost years Injury Time football · fathers The Long Way Home return · forgiveness

All poems

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About

Mark Nicholson
MARK NICHOLSON

A lifelong collector of stories.

Poems, essays and reflections about memory, family, friendship, football, creativity, ambition and the lives we end up living instead of the ones we planned.

Songwriter. Business owner. Football coach. Husband. Father.

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