…
the george & dragon snap
the tinker’s nipple
the albino snark
the horny akela
the king’s hedgehog
the queen’s pidgin english
the herring red lion
the black horsefly
the onbudsman’s ankles
the chest feeder’s bollocks
the travellers wrestle
the phantom arms
the dog rose & crown
the park keeper’s anus
the rocking horse & hellhounds
the dude of wellington
the dupe of york
the green man … alishi
the costerman’s bum fluff
the do my fucking head inn
…
…
jackdaws, jackdaws
where’s the morning star?
foggy monday face
twelve in every multipack
jackdaws, jackdaws
porridge on your chin
park the car & walk
green fluorescent marker pen
jackdaws, jackdaws
nothing on the box
soon the moon is full
wear your favourite cardigan
jackdaws, jackdaws
best before the tenth
fifty p in change
this is not a circular
backdoors, backdoors
dinner jacket sleeves
peanut butter jar
carpet burns & sneezing fits
jackdaws, jackdaws
just a slither, please
yellow hammer nest
hoping for a rainy day
…
…
died on a tuesday
wore orthopaedic shoes
spoke fluent badger
& hedgehog with an accent
smoked catnip
fantastic navel
eighteen freckles
on each anus cheek
slapped a mean bass
once saw a ghost float
born in the back
of a ford cortina
…
~
a twenty p piece
a golden pheasant’s feather
& the washing up
…
…
the ghost is a strobe
light like smoke
robed like a sunday
stones in your pocket
space in your mouth
gaps between nebulae
say what you meantime
uttering moons
down under earthen
where is a weather map
muttering toast
pushing up buttercups
boohoo blue boy
soy milk moobies
cows somehow
greener pastures preen
prequels & shattered glass
gasping like gosh
washing your socks
in a rusty trough
once was a book
bursting with hymns
but these seesaws
& comatosed kisses
…
…
pacing the daylight
forwards & backwards
after the index
worms catching blackbirds
possibly this like
space-time’s curvature
rearrange the furniture
& run with the bath
while pants fly
blessed be thy pencil
penicillin letterheads
iceberg penfriends
cucumber-esque
winking like a wanker
rhythm is a chancer
normal is a yawn
in a rancid hair shirt
flapping with flags
so flows leg it
haring on the grass
guess the restless rest
strums the blooming moon
soon is a poem
gone was a song
…
…
tailbacks both ways
hazelnuts & cobwebs
pickled peppers, plums
pecking orders, pectin
steam trains, paper planes
tractors & combines
turtle doves, turpentine
second hand underpants
fly-tippers will be
shot with water pistols
trespassers may be
chased by hefty heifers
squawk with us, darling
let the nettles sting
singing songs of starlings
starfish & lead mine shafts
led by o.s maps
not gingerbread crumbs
drawing boards or desks
– sort of august-esque
september sucks
like your grandmother’s mouth
sun from the south
then rain from the west
…
…
perseus millet
carotene steve
miss ing-katz
martian marshley
captain wetwipes
diagonal lesley
zulu chester
juju julie
the jenny wren reverend
mister e. box
nigella nunchucks
señor cumulonimbus
…
…
what was your last meal?
do your elbows go blue too?
is god a chaffinch?
…
( author notes )
thoughts & prayers go out
to all the poor, poor victims
of this horrifically tragic haiku
… hashtag stay brave
…
…
five fat chaffinches
chariots of fireflies
motorway jam sets
~
ice cream vangelis
episodic bird scarers
ruffle your crow’s feet
~
pan is a panda
valkyries in waxed bikinis
aspidistra this
~
climate cult sirens
fruit cake bots in green jackboots
grey day afternoons
~
hedgehog holidays
scrumping blueberry moonbeams
splendiferous shite
~
hosepipe hosiery
rumplestiltskin’s swingball serve
is a hunchback hand
…
