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a niseed annals
anoraks aplenty
u ndead unicorns
ubiquitous umbrellas
t offee apple teeth
ten thousand owls
u pland under umbra
unsung uncles
m izzle misted mondays
moribund maples
n osedive novelties
net-zero nob’eads
a ntlered apparitions
adders asleep
l izards & lillies
luminescent limboland
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soldier dip holders
for runny yolk folks
poultry ovum goblets
a shell for a shell
chicken period chalices
cackleberry vessels
chuck roe mugs
humpty dumpty cannikins
poussin spawn containers
nursing earth-shaped offerings
or easter beakers
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george & the soros’s – suffer litter insects
november’s ghost – batten up them rafters
stone cold david austin – arrive, sniff roses, leave
back before october – even evensong
december’s embers – relight my firewall
black currant queen – seven seas of ribena
the be at les – lo vemed o
phillip & the schofields – super-injunction blues
s-club shit sandwich – taste the spillage
d.j tinitus – peaks around noon now…
dodgy culvert – chicken shite river
simply red herrings – old oak amber gems
matt & the hancocks – midazolam massacre
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& cotton buds
& woollen hats
& farriers
& flapping bats
& calendars
& cavalcades
& colanders
& orangeade
& waitresses
& winter gloves
& turpentine
& turtle doves
& terraces
& terrapins
& topiary
& dorsal fins
& snorkelers
& summer nights
& samurai
& stalactites
& traffic lights
& roundabouts
& butter balls
& brussel sprouts
& falconry
& lemon trees
& liquorice
& memories
& marmosets
& marching bands
& pickled eggs
& ampersands
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even in the even’
after afternoon
sooner than you shrink
thinking of atoms
splitting like pyjamas
sleeping in banana skins
ants in the pants
of the breath we catch
twenty two starlings
murmurations, baby
sweetcorn & carrots
dangle like icicles
tricycles, bicycles
spin the unspoken
nodes in a notebook
the train is like a brain
streams between spanners
& bolts from the stable
courses for horses
& waves on the see
where the air turned
is back before back
scratch another itch then
with a phoenix feather
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vampiric dentists
volcanic discrepancies
vagabond doges
velvety doctors
victorious dinosaurs
voracious diners
vibraphones droning
vainglorious daffodils
virtual donuts
vultures diagnose
violinists dribbling
vegetable drawbacks
vignettes disappear
vivacious dopplegängers
various dodos
villagers dwindle
vicars discombobulate
vol-au-vent dick’eads
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toffee apple carthorse
fat pope orchestra feel
the changeling in the air
greengrocers shudder
where the fayre is pumpkin
& pumpernickel pumas
sputum is your middle name
so the parsnips parp
cotton buds ‘n’ crones
shimmers in the bones
haberdashers gargle
diluted black currant cordial
quantum leafs in the dark
branches bearing all
shitting in the woulda-
shoulda-coulda twilight
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elon’s musk
is deep deer undertones
with fragrant shades of otter
& subtle hints of badger
( can you smell it too? )
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tudor rose garden
a julius cedar tree
genghis carnation
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another daze on muddle earth
around the sound of browning turf
another death, another birth
a beetle’s back, a heaving clod
the eventide, the onion’s skin
a ghost within a stroking chin
the see y’ then in let’s begin
the splash is back, the path is trod
a green retreat, the gist of so
a smoker stubs his little toe
the roar is but the river’s flow
& strucken like a lightning rod
the day’s awash – a roaming sea
a badger in a bladder’s scree
is wazzing on the ash’s tree
& sinking with a winking nod
the breezes wheeze the cheese’s chalk
& ponder as the corvids squawk
the bend is yet another fork
an odyssey in socks of odd
a scattering of chatter’s brain
a bucket load o’ soaking rain
& fuck it’s pissing on again
upon a sodden morning plod
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