photography

after the discharge

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after the discharge ( egrahcsid eht refta )

…

since my nurse dispersed

& evaporated

      like a tin of milk

      or a sundae on the sun

as the doctors turned

& faced a flu religion

      baring hair shirts

      upon their lips & nostrils

all is rubber walls

sputum in a gale

      see the weasels scurry

      them that banged the pots

‘bet they watch the telly

& laugh at ant ‘n’ dec

      – yonder, palmate newts

      & fire salamanders

fall from welkin heights

splatter like rain

      normalz hides indoors

      never lives again

as the right dog barks

up the wrong fig tree

      yes, the world went mad

      when i became sane

…

pen

~

pen ( nep )

…


pen a sea of ink
see the kraken eating tea
cakes as clippers sink

plink a twisted nap
dreaming of contortionists
’til the buggers snap

plonk the plums of thyme
life on planet excrement
write this shit in rhyme

pluck a burst of herbs
plough with owls & dance with nouns
adjectives & verbs

pen a sword of sorts
swish as if a scribble’s knight
fight the normalzzz thought’s

pant a pencil’s case
shavings fall from sharpeners
larkers scrawl & face

penguin penumbras
penicillin pentagrams
pungent pensioners

pen another then
ink of squids & tentacles
vegetables & men
…

screen-locked

~

screen-locked ( dekcol-neercs )

…

spot the screen-locked

miss the the unseen

silver orbs soar

over clover

of a morning’s

nature dreamscapes

watching spats

& prancing doctors

see the flesh-bots

supping nectar

lap the sop

of puppy photos

texting friends

that loathe them deeply

dragons dance

in mackerel skies

saxon phantoms

plod their footsteps

roman ghosts

beside their stride

left of tread

the breathing undead

pixie shite

on the sole of their new shoes


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on it like a car bonnet nonet

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on it like a car bonnet nonet ( tenon tennob rac a ekil ti no )

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dancing badgers blather nuts in june

a sixpence in a chrysalis

sings a song of in between

croons in skeleton keys

as the sunset sweats

yet the moon is

shivering

& bats

flap

…

~

( author notes )

a nonet is a poem that starts with a nine syllable line

& counts down to one

– in case you weren’t aware

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as the breezes wheeze

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as the breezes wheeze ( ezeehw sezeerb eht sa )

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she of greener leas
rises like a muffin
as the breezes wheeze
huffing like a puffin

panting ants ‘n’ dance
in the middle’s muddle
hatching happenstance
pisses in a puddle

bubbles in the air
salad in a sandwich
where the leverets hare
lark a marching bandwidth

buzzing like a fly
as the pollen’s pouncing
butter flutters by
nodding branches bouncing

see the hedges row
glow beyond the blossom
summer is a ho
winter was a possum

all is balls again
diamonds hide in coal pits
’til the song’s refrain
shines another solstice
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eleven leavens

~

eleven leavens ( snevael nevele )

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riddles in rummages, scribbles in the head

inking of phoenixes, bicycles ‘n’ bread

bumble on – bee a seed – ’til the deed is done

spurring as gingers burn in the summer sun

as the old normalzzzz falls, shuffled shackles shake

muffled men tumble then – time f’ tea ‘n’ cake

burst beyond songs of swans, inner pickles so

scrawling up rubber walls – all’s a ball of dough

rising like sirius or a runner bean

leap above terraces – on a trampoline

of a blue afternoon – shooting leaves of green

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