orthopaedic shrew

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orthopaedic shrew  (  a  s h r e w  t a i l  )





television echo

esperanto toe

anaconda cello

lemon lent & snow


salmonella fishwife

scatter splatter rife

sputter butter pinstripe

panda pipe & fife


parabola porridge

locomotive midge

doppelgänger florist

otter socks & fridge


atom masher splashback

adder anorak

badger bladder backpack

spanner swag & sack


condensation ashtray

constellation ray

otter totter cachet

potter pox & clay


watermelon horseshoe

orthopaedic shrew

legs eleven corkscrew

seven sense - & shoo

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’tis curly spring

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’tis curly spring  (  a  p o e t r y  )




'tis curly spring - the crocus crows

& quivers speak the sea

it's pearly birds - too spoon the rose

as scissors squeak the bee


'tis songy sing - a walrus dawns

& warbles in the whist

it's donkey wings on peasant morns

as morsels door & twist


'tis eggy legs - the chaffinch church

& swan the blossom buds

it's messy heads - the serpent purrs

as otters spur the mud


'tis pearly maze - the raisin fries

& thunder wheels the scars

it's swirly days - drey eye to i

& slummer steams so star

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sleep’s feet

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sleep’s feet  (  a  s h r e w  t a i l  )




i whipped the lea of bend's the lane

as silver spits the spoon

that bulls the wool & wolves the brain

& spins the inner-loom


i chime the tor of chips of moor

as yonder fox the hare

above the hood of bile's the boar

& straw the squinter air


i snake the veil of quiver mist

as shepherds shake the trees

until the gull- a dove - it shits

& snail the lemon seas


i scrap the scrawl of discant sands

as phantoms light the knight

& swan in song of mirror-lands

as badgers fry the kite


i crow a pear of apple wings

& fluster up to mars

as candles spring of waxen things

as shingle toes the stars


& squall within my hammered head

as puddles sheep the stream

a shuffle in a crackered bed

a cabbage in

a dream

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a good soak

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a good soak  (  m u e s l i  f o r  t h e  m a s s e s  )




camera, tanker, actium

seven seals & eel

slither river taxi-run

miller wheels & meal


bubble puddle windermere

cuttlefish & sark

lather father inner-ear

scuttle ark & shark


gargle sparkle sing-along

babble bath & tub

marble twinkle - squinter song

badger back & scrub


porppoise, portal, open sore

finger, thumb & prune

porous, potion, ocean floor

sunken sun & moon


fastnet, fisher, hebrides

scupper sole & tyne

rat wet, ripples, entropy

supper wine & brine


rudders, eiders, blubber balls

chunder, tug & chug

sputter island spider scrawls

pull the plug

& glug

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gnitlem

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gnitlem  (  a  p o e t r y  )



lines-a-limb the cusp of bloom

flutters in the bud

spiders spin & sputters spoon

nutters in the mud

cider hymns & rubber moon

squinter slips

& thud


ink-a-squids the seeds of sew

scribbles in the head

finger tips & streams-a-flow

fiddles in the stead

timber tips & creepers crow

scrawl the ball

& thread


flaps-a-toad the crocus croaks

fluster in the fayre

phantom odes & ghosts-a-float

bluster in the air

faster spokes & focus smokes

hale the snail

& hare


rays upon the daze of sun

saddle in the snore

shades of swan & laser guns

battles in the war

sailor's songs & baker's buns

glacier on

& thaw

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