smoking salmon pink

~

smoking salmon pink  (  knip nomlas gnikoms  )



smoking salmon pink

weaving pins & needles


seek the chalk of cheese

chasing herrings red


kipper in this sleep

spinning paper plates


stickleback the front

warble forth & fifth


under witching witching moons

as the kettle's crooning


for the corvid dove

cod is love above


smoking salmon pink

weaving pins & needles


hazing lemonade

winter rose petals

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bloody venus …

~

bloody venus … (  … sunev ydoolb  )



candle flames of cinnabar

capers in a cable car


bird a bursting reservoir

suck the lemon's seminar


comatose the commissar

clutch a phantom handlebar


piffle piddle, scribble blah

scrawling with the morning star


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track listing

~

track listing  (  gnitsil kcart  )





trains on the brain

deer steering trams


antlers on a postcard

garden gnomes a roaming


crackles on the gramophone

warbles of a morn


sixteen minute bongo solos

perch & bike on bicycles


poetry on pogo sticks

snails of distant dales


songs in breathless heads

where the dead men stop


with ants in their pants

- & that song about an owl


otters in monster trucks

badgers in tractors

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of stolen sleep

~

of stolen sleep  (  peels nelots fo   )





scribbles on a paper plane

ink the hymn of stolen sleep

spin the spawn of sisyphus

laugh at shat as weasels creep


warbles of the broken ode

suckle not the pot of toss

or the war of banging doors

rubber balls & stalker dross


nature sees the tails of snakes

hears the blear of little men

bitching of an even black

flapping with the winter wren


sinking with the phantom sun

lick the mist & kiss the swan

so the moon is blooming true

float with stoats & badger on

...











































 

roaming in the gloaming

~

roaming in the gloaming  (  gnimaolg eht ni gnimaor  )






rabbits on the pastures

hopping as a bean

bursting is the blackbird's

stuff of in between


muffles in the shuffles

flutter butterfly

moths emerge & circle

shepherds scan the sky


red above & smiling

silver, gold & chrome

clouded shrouds of mackerel

cows are coming home


nightingales in copses

hymn the dales & lark

hark, the trot of foxes

rabid badgers bark


whispers in the grasses

chatters in the ear

green becomes the blackness

people disappear


burglars are stirring

phantoms on the prowl

wander in this whirring

til the owlets howl


gleaming is the evening

see the rivers run

roaming in the gloaming

sinking with the sun


spinning on a sixpence

after afternoon

squinting eyes & skyward

rising with the moon

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michaelmas checklist

~

michaelmas checklist  (  tsilkcehc samleahcim  )





leaves on the line

a touch of the sniffles


clutching at straws

& hot water bottles


fog of a morn

a tree on the fire


a hole in my boots

a vole in the headland


the death in the eyes

of tosspots in tinsel


a darkening creep

the magic of starlings


a fly in my soup

in need of a punchline


a goblin, a ghost

a roasting of parsnips


with rain on the brain

a sneezing of breezes


sleep like a wood

snore with the dormice


mud in the blood bank

lakes on the floodplains


potatoes in grow bags

no snow - but mistletoe

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apple crumble

~

apple crumble  (  elbmurc elppa  )





scribble on the breeze

a cappella

apple crumble


nature's paper plane

paradidddle

drum a tumble


twist a tungsten tongue

lemon scented

tundra jungle


scratching letterheads

pens 'n' pencils

staggers stumble


catch a cabbage fly

inner-pickle

stomach rumble


spring an onion sky

hood the woodland

mumble jumble


antlers in the mist

starlings sparkle

bees & bumble


looping lunar seas

utter custard

mustn't grumble

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pentecost pencils

~

pentecost pencils  (  slicnep  tsocetnep  )






pentecost pencils

ash in the scatters

badger m'nadgers

broth of the lentils


soup of the dazes

mush of the shroomer

suns of the lunar

loops in y'laces


spins on a sixpence

clover & myrtle

stoned in a circle

spring in the distance


air in a pocket

pop is a weasel

hills are a steeple

hares in a locket


bats in the babble

scraps in the rubble

ink in a bubble

waxing the saddle


land underwater

autumn is pissing

woodland is drifting

warmer & whisping


michaelmas mizzle

hymns in the headland

weather the wetland

pepper the pickles


shits in a harbour

voles in a bucket

lemon the suck it

fuck it - & scarper

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~

author notes

beyond last night's deep sleep

( the first in a while )

-

bed truth not weasel sheet

breathe & out

smoke green oak ghost

sulis & phosphorus

echoes in hedgerows

antennae & i

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