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fruit & veg incident ( o n e o f y o u r f i v e a d a z e )
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red blackcurrants pink cucumbers black satsumas purple turnips lemon peaches almond almonds yellow melons silver onions chequered chillies white pineapples half transparent phantom carrots beige potatoes polka dotted tartan parsnips - please, green grocer ( ? ) ...
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then september sonnets ( a p o e m )
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balls upon the spawning barristers are courting phantom horses snorting canter, clip & clop pheasants peck the welkin witches grin as spells sing chapels flap as bells ring badgers black a bop crabs are storming forward apples haunt the orchard pears & hares are cornered as the forests flop & the woodland wobbles as the weasels waffle ships at sea in bottles seasons scheme & swap sod it, quips the noggin yonder bobs a robin snails upon a coffin face the grey & hop chickens pecking linguists rumplestiltskin tin-ribs helicopter english chipper chip & chop then september sonnets from a mizzled forest ( sort of wood or coppice ) drizzle drip & drop crows above in circles sheep are fleeced in thermals as the summer curdles so the weasels pop ( fin ) ...
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gone fishing for shopping trolleys ( a p o e m )
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gone fishing for shopping trolleys ships in bottles, missing bodies on the towpath - as the boats pass ( i'll be home by six ) ...
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quarter past fuck knows ( f o r y e t i & n e s s i e )
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quarter past fuck knows weevils on a drunken eve yawning morning dew dial a sun, crow toes spiral like an afternoon dinosaur at two bumblebees, breeze blows robots on a roman road clocks of cuckoo spew burble 'erb - thyme flows flapping as a pantomime flying back to you ( ? ) ...
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sycamore ( a p o e m )
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in black chapels of crab apples as jack-badgers jig in jaggles & chip chaffinch chatter jackals as a maiden tames a shrew in fir forests of frost otters as frog-florists cough in coffers & green beavers sneeze on loggers as the vicars sniff on glue in red temples of lead pencils as black adders fast for lentils & grey ravens bass the trebles as the saxons tax a pew or squawk orchards of auk orphans as incisors grind on organs & jawed georgians war with gorgons i shall sycamore - for yew ...
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three more short poems ( t r ì d à i n g h o i r i d e i l e )
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crow bungalow jackdaw backdoor ... toad stool newt pew ... ring road road ring ...
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cripes on a bicycle ( a l o g i s t i c a l d a y d r e a m )
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hedges of edgelands bricks of the styx dung of the beetles tongue of the beaks larks of the arse-ends friends of the blends romans & yeomans mud on their cheeks hawks of the hill-borne whores of the moors warbles of walrus scaling the peaks whales of the forest foals of the vales jiggles & jumbles gifts bearing greeks quails of the dale's dip bees on the breeze barons in manors breathing antiques berks & bezerkers clowns in the town rats in the churches whispering squeaks birds of the burbles hares of the wares bears of the woodland shitting in creaks bats in the valley shepherds & sheep tremble when thunder rumbles & speaks ...
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some call it ” pudding ” ( s o m e o f t h a t s p o n t a n a e i t y b r i n g s l i f e e t c )
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shotgun michaelmas shat-nav graviton sneeze breeze cheesery left-hook lemonade red book pallisade pea green seraphin hopscotch laser ray big, fat fatima ( amen ) ...
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pigeon portugese ( a c h a i n o f t a w t )
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pigeon portugese lesser-speckled cornish auk catfish catalan catfish catalan medieval flemish elk mandrill mandarin mandrill mandarin pink flamingo middle norse sanskrit antelope sanskrit antelope triple-english chicken shit pigeon portugese ...
resarf poetry 