Art

& a cat with eyebrows?

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martian men invade earth
come the week ahead?

so tomorrow’s crumpets?
yesterday’s brown bread?

saladin & mothman
in your garden shed?

guinivere & danu
underneath my bed?

as the sun is singing
songs around the moon

bats above us gliding
of an afternoon

four & twenty mute swans
talking to the dead?

& a cat with eyebrows?
possibly, she said

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( yet more author notes )

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scribbled in the midlands
by a scroat in odd socks

lit by tealight
up before the farmers

read by smoky fishwives
praetorian gardeners

rabid traffic wardens
& seasick oceanographers

at least it’s not the sobbings
of your godmother’s sonnets

or the catatonic purrs
of your long lost uncle’s prose

may contain monkey
nuts & the other

best before last century
peaked in antiquity

i blame the belgians
the gypos & the methodists

sod this for a stare-off
with a freshly painted wall

( huff )

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