flap’s the phantom yonder forest

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flap’s the phantom yonder forest  (  b a s t e d  o n  a  t r u e  s t o r y  )


flap's the phantom yonder forest

in the weasel of the night

as the golden pipe for porridge

under blackened beams of light


& the sunken sun is kippers

in the wingdom of the owl

then the elfin shit in knickers

as the headless badgers growl


in the brambles of the thicket

at the shiver of the moon

as a silence strikes the crickets

& a whisper sings a tune


in the silver of the birches

& the mumble of the oaks

as an antlered umbra lurches

& a silva toad - it croaks


at the witches & the wizards

in the fiddle of the fire

with the serpent & the lizards

to the diddle of a lyre


& the pheasant stalks the foxes

then the speckled cockerel yawn

flap's the phantom yonder forest

but it's cracking come the dawn

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alladin’s magic lamprey

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alladin’s magic lamprey  (  ‘ n u f f  s h e d  )




coleslaw caterwauls

splashback avalon

hedgerow pencil case

flapjack pinafore


mu-moon monolith

basalt sausage bogs

black hole iodine

tenpin tesseract


whiplash avebury

sidecar carnival

salt sunned spider-eyed

mam tor parallax


nosebleed libraries

mudflap mercury

gas mask serpentine

- save the maypole cat

( ! )

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jacket pocket

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jacket pocket  (  a  p o e m  /  a  l i s t  )


a carrier pigeon

& charger - adapter

a tisket, a ticket

a genie

reciepts


a petal of blossom

an ombudsman's uncle

the clang of a pin drop

a bee in

the breeze


the noon of last tuesday

a garden in darkeness

an apple, a chapel

a scrumple

of sheets


the battle of flanders

& nessy & yeti

a pebble, a pencil

a handkerchief

- keys

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tsol meop

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tsol meop  (  a  p o e m  o f  m i s s i n g  t h i n g s  )




dockets in pockets, a vole in the head

warbles of wallets & balls of the thread

locks in the locket or cats up a tree

thrashings at matches & flaps in the red


tingling teasels, an inkling of hay

spindling needles & sun on the day

spun of a sputter as kingdoms of keys

sleep in the aether & pigeon of clay


bricks of a fourth wall, a scrawl in the scribes

slipping in shortfalls as roundabout slides

down as the trousers or scuttles at sea

singing in whispers of giants & tribes


bundling parcels - a garden or two

mumbling marbles in spew of a clue

mist in the mizzle on riddling screes

music in gargles, a sparkle & ewe

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j nests in woodland

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j nests in woodland  (  a  g o o d  i d e a  a t  t h e  t i m e  ,  s o z  )





jackdaw jacobites

juggle jam jar juggernauts

jumbo jungle jets


jumbo jungle jets

jibber jackal japanese

jinxing jutland's june


jinxing jutland's june

jumping judas javelins

jasmine jamborees


jasmine jamborees

jiving jaundice jupiter

jackdaw jacobites

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ekaw pu

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ekaw pu  (  a  p o e m  &  t h a t ‘ s  t h a t  )



babylon's buggered as bugles have blown

up in a bubble & toodle's the ooze

sodom is rogered - the rooster has flow

cockerels in 'copters & buttons on snooze


london is sunken as avalon's toast

tossed in a salad & tingle's the tongue

onions are pickled from pillock to post

topple's the ladder & adder's the rung


reverie's aether as easter is dead

fucked in the bonnet & sonnet's the song

weathering weavers when pencils are lead

licks in the letters & yonder - the swan


bobs on the lochan as comets are seen

singing of scissor & stars in the charts

turning in circles & hops in the bean

ripples in rivers & kicks up the arse

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yodel with pheasants

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yodel with pheasants  (  a  p l a n  /  n o n r i c k  f o r  t h e  p i c  )





the tenant is peasant & swollen nodes

as lemon's the segment in robes of toads

& wither's the windmill

so hit the hills

& yodel with pheasants on roman roads

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