squinter in three

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squinter in three  (  a  p o e t r y  )




black box, clog pops, nightingales & flight

dead frogs, hedgehogs - candles moth the light

spatchcock, leaf thief - squinter strikes & bites


midriff, seesaw, crystal key & turn

frost socks, tree snore - whistles stir the urn

citric, tea cup - squinter bucks & churns


primrose, inflows, rubber ducks & leap

spam mail, wagtails - bristles brush the sweep

windows, wind blows - squinter seeps & weeps

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tin kazoos & kangaroos

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tin kazoos & kangaroos  (  a  p o e m  )




tin kazoos & kangaroos

antelopes & ants

spare keys - faeries

daffodils & dance


lion roars & iron ores

polar bears & poles

maydays - grey haze

solar flares & foals


rattlesnakes & applecakes

fingertips & toes

black ties - glass eyes

bungalows & crows


neighbourhoods & hazelwoods

nasal spray & swan

hilltops - milksops

hop a song & on

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hood this bee spring?

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hood this bee spring?  (  a  p o e m  )




the crocus eye crows

the snowdrop spoons

i psalter a swan

the altar noons


a hillock chill chips

& swill's this song

a burble of birds

as curdles on


the sun a dove dips

& flecks its horns

a snap or a snip?

as nettles swarm


oh, hood this bee spring?

it's reever roar

the gnat in the bean

the door of jaw

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egg’s the feb

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egg’s the feb  (  a  p o e t r y  )



wobble's the cobbles of cob's the web

talon's the salmon & spit's the spawn

speckle's the settle as shell's the tread

enter's the tenter & dog's the dawn


warble's the chorus of thaw's the thread

muddle's the puddle & ear's the corn

puzzled's the porpoise as leg's the ebb

leopard's the shepherd & shear's the shorn


blubber's the lovers of lead's the head

stencil's the pencil & mud's the morn

riddle's the scribbles as spurt's the spread

bubble's the muddles & bud's the brawn


blathers the badgers of breath's the dead

patter's the pastures & yew's the yawn

ruffle's the rooster as egg's the feb

para's the trooper & storm's the form

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on the twelves again

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on the twelves again  (  a  p o e m  )




sing a spring of bristles in the fair of the fowl

ale a dale of dingles in the woof of the dog

wheeze a breeze of weasels in the glare of the owl

whale a sail of symbols in the hood of the nod


buzz a fuzz of numbers in the toes of the tor

stamp a lick of letters in the box of the hare

rose a thorn of summers in the nose of the storm

string a vest of sweaters in the knots of the snare


slap a smash of cymbals in the flap of the fly

spin a squid of sybils in the nip of the cat

shat a pat of bullion in the wool of the eye

in a wisp of whistles in the blink of the bat

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on the nines

~

on the nines  (  t h e  s t u f f  o f  f o  f f u t s  e h t  )




anchor, canter, caterpillar key

naval, navel, nasal cavity

hosta, opera, helicopter three


panda, samba, apple battleships

truncheon, luncheon, onion bunion thrips

tenter, sensor, television six


methyl, maple, trestle table wine

circles, gerbils, turtle turpentine

gutters, sputters, spiral spider nine

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helicopter macaroni

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h e l i c o p t e r  m a c a r o n i  (  s o m e  w o r d s  )



cupboard brains & buzzard bubbles

badgers brass the mustard knuckles

puddles in the polka dotter

cauldron sputter - nutter shuffle


tungsten toes & postal orders

onions skin the grocer's daughter

potters in the terracotta

hexapoda soda water


cheetah cheese & apple cartons

chocolate trees the tartan garden

dockets in the pocket otter

dowser trouser - up the arson


cider song & shetland ponies

spiders on the telephony

crackles in the attic doctor

helicopter macaroni

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everything has ankles too

~

everything has ankles too  (  a  p o e m  )




algebra & cataracts

mizzle in the mist

phantom hands & candle wax

fingers of the fist


resonate & weather vanes

digits in the mud

scatter rain & splatter brains

bridges of the flood


puddle crumbs & allen screws

rubble in the heap

tungsten tongues & avenues

shuffles of the sheep


rubber bands & dictionaries

citrus in the curd

ampersands & apple trees

cymbals of the birds

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wet underfoot

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wet underfoot  (  a  p o e m  )



pond pokes the puddle & swan songs the land

on boats the struggle & brass blasts the band

splat peas the pasture as lake seas the lea

frog hops the fuddle & sing rings the spanned


duck backs the stature & damp clams the brain

quack squids the faster & drip squibs the rain

thirst blurs the muddle as swish fish the tree

burst cracks the puddle & rat twats the drain


brown boots the burble & drown spews the cud

earth flutes the gurgle & down lutes the thud

squelch roars the chorus as score spores the scree

belch blows the chorus & roar flows the mud


drip drops the otter & brim dims the ditch

lip quips the river & kiss whips the bridge

splodge dogs the opera as splat bogs the key

trod plops the sodden & pop plods the squidge

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