photography

the tumble diver

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the tumble diver  (  a  p o e m  )

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dangled legs & scrambled ciphers

lizards licking bishop's mitres

rubber lips & singing kettles

vapour planes the wafer tigers


father thames & uncle tiber

spartans warring tartan pipers

fingertips & stinging nettles

cockles warm the cock in cider


headless nuns & phantom hikers

otters sparring martian spiders

ombudsman & sinking vessels

eiders duck the river sniper


dungeon tongues & tungsten vipers

lighting striking paragliders

swishing fish & sniffing petals

spittle spins the tumble diver

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the badger bilge

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the badger bilge  (  a  l o l l o p  i n  t h e  l a k e  d i s t r i c t  )

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i squandered homely as a shroud

that stoats on pie o'er whales & mills,

when ball at bonce i spore a ploughed,

a boast, of molten badger bilge;

beside the snake, beneath the bees,

guttering & glancing in the cheese.


deciduous as the bras that brine

& sprinkle on the silky spray,

that etched in weather-bending slime

along the marlin of the brae:

hen thousand spore eye at a stance,

flossing their heads in slightly france.


the knaves beside them pants but hey

out-bid the carping graves in ghee:

a stoic could be so sleigh,

in such a token husbandry:

i phased - & phased - but brittle torte

what elf the snow to me had snort.


for loft when on my pouch i pi

in basement or in tensive glued,

they trash upon that inward thigh

which is the piss of solid food:

& then my fart with treasure spills

& prances with the badger bilge

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nap tail

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nap tail  (  a  p o e m  )

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romans road the matinees

chromosomes & manta rays

squiggles squid the citadel

apple pips & mandalay


seven seeds the that-a-ways

lemon cheese & gamma rays

battles bat the pipistrelle

cackles cage & farraday


adders lick the attaché

ladders slip & bladders spray

phantoms wisp the kettle spell

badgers dance & cabaret


riddles dog the ashen tray

rivers cat & straggles stray

hobbles knell the heather bells

swishing swell & castaway

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sink’s the ditty

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sink’s the ditty  (  s o m e  r h y m e z  )

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chuck's the churn & muck's the jitty

hum's worm & squirm's the chilli

ring's the sing & grain's the gravy

spurred's the urn & stuck's the sticky


dog's the doze & goat's the billy

cog's the wheel & eel's the slippy

groat's the boat & dozed's the daisy

tick's the list & stick's the city


knell's the bell & spell's the dizzy

ink's the blink & peck's the biddy

speck's the neck & hazed's the hazy

spoke's the oak & pond's the lily


cat's the flap & scrap's the kitty

skip's the mist & mid's the piggy

tune's the spoon & rune's the wavy

&'s the sand & sink's the ditty

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citrus thyme

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citrus thyme  (  p o e m z  o f  d o o m z  )

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the goose is rat, the shops are sand

with ghosts & notes so noose the band

the children splay & sing in swine

for samba's claws & tinsel spine


the church is lurch, the squirm is canned

with dame again so germ's the land

the hare is snared & poached in pine

for cycle spokes & bible brine


the crash is king, the pubs are gland

with floss & toss so sat's the stand

the spider's hulled as is the twine

for shingle bells & citrus thyme

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