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songs of the summer ( so far ) ( ( raf os ) remmus eht fo sgnos )
…
diabetic midwife – scotch egg hatchling
hyperspace clive – mushy pea beats
dyslexic dental assistants – love on the m42
susan’s shoe – ( acapela instrumental )
ketchup kenneth – the ombudsman’s missus
vacant anus – marmite massacre
the parsnip farmers – piss off & diary
gavin in a milkfloat – the goat nextdoor
narnia f.c – the prog days of summer
d.j ball sack – technicolour dream scroat
…
~
( alternative names for rain ) ( niar rof seman evitanretla )
…
utnapishtim pish
spent pennies from heaven
what the quack ordered
the waz of the gods
high tides on magonia
floating noah’s boat
a river’s lifeblood
answering the shaman’s dance
bringer of puddles
quencher of gardens
& the splash within a birdbath
a storm’s hearth fire
why cagoules are cool
mate of macs & anoraks
grass’s ganymede
feeder of the trees
filler of ponds, lochs & lakes
sating all again
…
~
spencer perceval ( lavecrep recneps )
…
radish of the day
achy breaky harpsichord
cartoon cockatoo
…
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shat which shall remain ( niamer llahs hcihw tahs )
…
fragments of the telephone
directory
two now ossified
pot noodle pots
the mandible jaw
of a traffic warden
the left hip bone
of a local news weatherman
loadsa wind turbines
– solar bloody panels
& a fossilized
corby trouser press
…
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why not write about … ? ( ? … tuoba etirw ton yhw )
…
granny knotted baling twine
not a reef or hercules
why the green finch
is purple in your journals
buttons of the bronze age
once upon a swan
postcards from nowhere’s
hairy anus
partridges in beech trees
& the latest shrew news
humpty dumpty, humpbacks
the whales or the bridges
…
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effing all the way ( yaw eht lla gniffe )
…
formaldehyde finch
flapjack flat-pack furniture
five fucking frisbees
…
~
sticky ( ykcits )
…
crickets in thickets
licking stamps with ants in pants
fingers, twigs – wickets
…
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why the solar system’s warming up ( pu gnimraw s’metsys ralos eht yhw )
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farting cows on venus
phosphorus the farmer
martian spiders driving
hench monster trucks
clouds of phantom gas
from the anus of uranus
barbecues on neptune
– how bloody dare they?
no one on jupiter
dyes their hair purple
green or rainbow
– the keiper belt’s a gammon
no one respects
mercury’s pronouns
every sunday saturn
burns a bonfire
pluto never banged his pots
or wore a face nappy
anything but
the sun we all orbit
…
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what the critics said ( dais scitirc eht tahw )
…
“the unicorn bristles
gently caress the heels”
( rennie rectangle, shoe buff buff monthly )
“tied too tightly
to ever be undone”
( zues ammon junior, the gordian )
“the phoenix feathers
sang me to sleep”
( eve smegingley, things that rhyme with willow )
“i laughed so hard
my harvest failed”
( archibald arsewipe, the sunday hexpress )
“one, zero, one, one
zero, one, zero, zero”
( gordon borgton, the annual bot review )
“rusty in places
but absolutely arrow-proof”
( mussafah goodwinson, the daily chain mail )
…
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the morris dancers ( ! ) ( ( ! ) screcnad sirrom eht )
…
they live upon the fringes
like black eyed bus conductors
half within this whirl
fifty percent elsewhereish
perchance a c.a.m.r.a inn
on a cousin frequency
emerging when the chimes
knell them into eyesight
prancing like a hart
bobbing as a robin
on a beltane morn
or at the vicar’s garden party
men with wood clash
rod on rod action
erato wets her knickers
lost in mutant music
skipping like a scratched e.p
watch those bellends go
bobs on boxing day
in the corners of our vision thing
where the faeries play
games of hide & seek again
fading in & otherling
with their wonky radios
waving handkerchiefs
wafting white wraiths
what the folk are you?
what the folk is glowing on?
i’ve yet to catch a live one
& keep it in my net
they wriggle like a stickleback
then vanish as a phantom
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resarf poetry 