i sigh with my spittle aye –

~

i sigh with my spittle i –  (  – eya elttips ym htiw ym htiw hgis i  )




i sigh

with my spittle aye


the lies in the eyes

of woodland weasels


the dung on the tongue

of spineless spies


bees in a sonnet

& village busybodies


barking at snarks

& parping with parsnips


flaps with the bats

gaslights & gobshites


spouting out venom

& running from echoes


the hare in a snare

is their own silhouette


...







































 

& yet more things to write about

~

& yet more things to write about   (  tuoba etirw ot sgniht erom tey &  )




the hole in last saturday's

black anorak

syntax saddle wax

cold sores or coleslaw

hyacinths & hierophants

hot water bottles

passengers on paper planes

crashing in the bin

bubblewrap & moonlight

this is not a shopping list

swansongs from cygnus

lemon scented lententide

bright white poltergeists

daffodils & mistletoe

toad shit & toad stools

- luminescent insects

...





























 

two two – twenty twenty

~

two two – twenty twenty  (  ytnewt ytnewt – owt owt  )






turnips

windmills

earthworms

tinned spaghetti


long johns

'erb song

thyme flies

spinning jenny


dogs fog

odd jogs

all's balls

gland of plenty


blue hue

grey daze

shapes shift

lizard-yeti


mystics

fish lips

piss this

spend a penny


sweet tea

t.v

v.d

elementary


old soles

new shoes

two two

- twenty twenty


rain came

brains drained

trapclap

cognoscenti


...


















































 

inner-diplodocus

~

inner-diplodocus  (  sucodolpid-renni  )





hooded badger dances

in a wooded glade

dangle hang the branches

swans upon a fade


pantomime is stirring

phantoms paint the sky

cottages are burning

as a wicker guy


grey's a television

beige is in the air

shades of repetition

pale's a mountain hare


sound & round in circles

lick the salted stones

speak of sleep in thermals

winter whips the bones


vee's a skein of goslings

sea the green of moss

like the skin of goblins

shining in the dross


robins bob but apples

rot amongst the muck

yon's the black of chapels

headless chickens cluck


pen the death of horus

sepulchure the air

autumn is a tortoise

snoring with the bear


inner-diplodocus

lick the witches' toad

sing until the crocus

springs another ode

...































 

catalytic dogwood

~

catalytic dogwood  (  doowgod citylatac  )





tin can canticles

catalytic dogwood

green leaf figaro


flapjack farriers

apple crumble thunder

ad hoc cockerel crow


licked lead pencil neck

peppermint & picnics

sea red river row


peas pod podiums

paradiddle panpipes

sky high bungalow


odd sock sorcery

disappearing earwax

bigwig little toe


sun spun tungsten tongue

static attic choruses

unsung overflow

...












































sky fives

~

sky fives  (  sevif yks  )




~


over horizons

split like a flatfish

scatters of mackerel

oceans above us

redder than herrings


~


warning the morning

tremble's a shepherd

horus's yawning

elder & younger

rumbles of thunder


~


thor in his attic

crackles of static

smashing & passing

cracks in the walrus

circles of buzzards


~


zeus on his broomstick

swoops with laputa

then in the welkin

belenus sinking

phosphorus winking


~


hecates sneezes

cheese & breezes

sniff it & spin it

this is the limit

up in the yonder


...
















































 

weasels ate my sleep ( again ) …

~

weasels ate my sleep ( again ) …  ( insert backwards title here )





goblins guzzle golf balls

swans have sung to cygnus

glum has gone to iceland

bitches bubble broth


intermittent backspin

choruses of walrus

hieroglyphic toad spawn

telephonic quaff


luminescent insects

diabetic pupae

poetry's a robot

peaks are in me trough


pissing streams of paper

otter oscillator

pens are friends of comas

pencils nodding off

...




 








 

inner-nutshells

~

inner-nutshells  (  sllehs-renni  )






in a nutshell - squirrels gather

grey's the daze but may is hazel


winter's brittle, numbers crunching

frothing gobs & speak in seasons


salad blathers streams & rivers

breezes sneezing, branches quiver


stars & sparkles - reams of paper

missing marbles, maids-a-milking


hills & dingles, kitchens sinking

bluster fingers, grip is slipping


march is marching, spring is onions

august calling, autumn falling


all is almonds, monkeys munching

green's a valley, finches singing


in a nutshell - inner-nutshells

t'other earths

& other nutters

( soz )


...





( author notes )


true truths -  not thirteen's weasel shit

wear black tracky-beez


let them white togs hang

like a babylonian rockery


breathe in scapes & shapes of sleep

& cleanse this double-murder village


this is not a shopping list

( so )

never eat shredded wheat

...