under pickled onion skies

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under pickled onion skies  (  seiks noino delkcip rednu  )







tumbleweed is crack in town

sunken suns - a solar crown

topples swan & skittles flea

red is black as grocers brown


lepers leap a peaking trough

rivers spin the phantom cough

tumours bloom in lieu of see

as the tinkers taper off


tailors chase a fading ghost

piffle snails a pillared post

weasels weave the bastard scree

keeping watch but burning toast


sailors sink & purses pinch

serpents smile & snake an inch

as the piffle quivers thee

but the seasons siskins finch


sing y' bunions lullabies

under pickled onion skies

hesper o'er crows & bee

bumbles spreading butterflies


bear's the air so square the peg

sound around & drown this smeg

hare the land of library

pantomimes on planet egg

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desserification

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dessertification  (  noitacifitressed  )







whipped vanilla sunspots

raspberry ripples


macaroon moonbeams

fudge sauce sorcery


mint-choc woodchip

chip shop mars barks


battered bat backspins

pop bottle riverbank


orangeade laser rays

cheesecake snakeskin


peach pie skylarks

victoria spongiform


iced cream bunions

butterscotch flycatchers


singing summer puddings

pavlova overtures

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daydream diary

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daydream diary  (  yraid meardyad  )








sucking pickled eggs

in a cable car

with the king of spades

inks the fable's blah


fleeing from the lawn

& a garden gnome

sweat with chicken legs

pegging far from home


eating custard creams

in a mongol yurt

with a bewick's swan

sherbert for dessert


singing kate bush hits

running up that hill

shed banana skins

tripping jack & jill


cladding pyramids

spool an afternoon

soffiting on mars

strimming on the moon


scribble paper plane

pen the umbra's map

swim the waking's daze

catching scraps - of nap

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mayesque

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mayesque  (  euqseyam  )






flower moon boots

pounding dew's juices


five is alive

maius is a maiden


april's a ghost

glowing in the hedgerows


pan's in the brambles

pissing on a poem


suns blear clear

spearing the sparrow grass


deep green gleams

intermittent river blanks


kestrels swoop

as the bluebells droop


dead ants prance

in morris dancer pants


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planet egg

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planet egg (  gge tenalp  )







once anon trad the folk

toad an ode, frog a croak

river mist, kiss the smoke

flap a wing, jig a leg


spawn the dawn, fly the sky

yoke the sun over thy

hatch a plan, frying high

sound around - square a peg


hare the air, natter shat

hat 'n' this, piss 'n' that

cool the school as a cat

power naps powder keg


dog the woods - woof a bass

weaving wool, pull a face

spicing life, grinding mace

scrawling balls - nut the meg


shave the apes shaking clubs

pull the plugged bathing tubs

headless kings, snakes in pubs

normalzzz falls - scrambled smeg


mumble us, jungles bee

kitchen sinks bumble we

jumping jack jumbled free

cracking on planet egg

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phantom times

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phantom times  (  semit  motnahp  )





four forty formless

floating o'clock


clover & over

the ghost of october


ten past orb

'til the figment of six


shapes in the shade

of whitsun's apparition


pens scribble then

& hand tap backs


stones tape so

mumbles of umbra


two twenty spook

quarter to revenant


bright white poltergeists

dancing in the april wraith

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nac eht ni

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nac eht ni  (  in the can  )






scraping scapes of dawns

deep upon the speak of sleep

as aurora yawns


so a cockerel crows

draining brains in bursts of bird

as the blither flows


while a spider spins

silken webs within the head

stringing hymns in tins


wriggle scribbled squirms

prancing pants of pastoral

ants & earthen worms


as a phantom hare

in the twists of mizzled mist

spins this sylphid air


scattered scraps of dreams

passengers on paper planes

baked but magic beans

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