photography

lines upon a thawing morn

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lines upon a thawing morn ( norm gniwaht a nopu senil )

…

under shifting skies
making shapes & chasing tails
crocus focus eyes

on a changeling day
hocus pocus stokes the sun
rivers run away

rabbits hop a skip
badgers prance in cotton pants
as the copses drip

drops upon the crown
little drips of waterfalls
ups beyond the down

west is wetting forth
mister frost is packing bags
jack is heading north

eastern beasts – begone
lo, the melting men of snow
poets scrawling on

all’s a yawning bud
sploshing in this sodden yon
puddles in the mud

trudge in rubber boots
see the streams of in between
– green’s the tulip shoots
…

wassail away

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wassail away ( yawa liassaw )

…

gonorrhoea, gonorrhoea
earwigs, winter wren
penfriends, seven oaks
closed door, semaphore

galleria, galleria
gas mask, gallifrey
grey day, laser ray
hook worm, open book

black maria, black maria
jackdaws, circuit board
white light, tiger stripes
hot spots, rotterdam

tanzania, tanzania
two shrews, avenues
sun soaked, solarplex
hi-fi, lichtenstein

hypernea, hypernea
hopsotch, hologram
cancan, caterwaul
mudflaps, morris men

diarrhoea, diarrhoea
nosedive, iron board
bandstands, calcium
stand clear – disappear
…

jazz handstands

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jazz handstands ( sdnatsdnah zzaj )

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mid-feb messages
mars bar massage
black mass aftermath
lamestream bubble broth
off key offerings
witch hunt witterings
flu world order falls
masked men scurrying
dot them leopard spots
sea change paper plane
earwig cavaliers
round head trouser press
bean green fellaheen
sock drawer sorcery
pen then, pendragon
bright white bicycles
…

hermit verses

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hermit verses ( sesrev timreh )

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scribble in the breeze

spin the green of in between

squawk the chalk of cheese

      clatter on a track

      as the village cabbage man

      walk the forth of back

normalzzz is a wall

institutions block the view

serving bugger all

      but the weasel kin

      float beyond the irksome scroats

      stroke a phantom chin

beam beneath the moon

catch a bat & flap a nap

bee the gleeful loon

      here’s the near of far

      feathers fall & heavens call

      silent like a star

shining nonetheless

prosody’s a lottery

every step’s a guess

      none atop a throne

      sing within the kingdom of

      wander on alone

…

lines beside the still freshwater

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lines beside the still freshwater ( retawhserf llits eht ediseb senil )

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nothing rhymes with mallard
orange is the tip

of a rhyme-less iceberg
& their echoes quack

birch above the bank side
gazes like narcissus

or your average selfie
shat on instagram

bubbles neath the surface
from the realm of mermen

maids & mini kraken
otters or a pike

scribble by this mirror
on a picnic table

with a tracker bar
& a can of irn bru

as the breeze is sneezing
though the mist persists

in the snooze of tuesday
waiting for excalibur
…

frog off

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frogg off ( ffo grof )

…

why those marching men

them of marshes, bogs & logs

croaking in my throat?

…

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( author notes )

& in case the p.c hate mob are reading this

the photograph is a cis female womxn lady

( she / her ) ewe

… happy now …

?

barnstorming barnacles

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barnstorming barnacles ( selcanrab gnimrotsnrab )

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pickled onion sun
nimble ninja nun
stub a little toe
fission fisherman

flacid flabbergast
gorgon plaster cast
jungle jumble so
juggle juggermast

jangle jasmine jam
mizzle milligram
myrtle vertigo
tinsel tinker’s damn

fawning caribou
cornet cockatoo
boggle bungalow
gosling peekaboo

rubble rubberneck
shuffle upper deck
trumpet strumpet hoe
vernal verger trek

mitten ministry
kipper synestry
pluck a fiddle so
suck a dictionary
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one of those daze

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one of those daze ( ezad esoht fo eno )

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waking the bread, squawking the dog

walking a torque, haunting a bog

cows in the brown, facing the grey

misting the bus, pissing the day

feathers ‘n’ dust, riddling lips

tumbles of tongue, bottles in ships

bugs in the bots, webs in the flies

ebbing a flow, ghosting the skies

toasting the beans, open the end

blur in reverse, foaming a friend

blinking a sea, singing a whale

leaden’s the stead, twisting the tale

scratching a map, gravel in boots

graphing a plot, circular routes

boxing a frog, scallions weep

sleep beneath eyes, eyes above sleep

…

when every other fucker on earth has a podcast

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when every other fucker on earth has a podcast ( tsacdop a sah htrae no rekcuf rehto yreve nehw )

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when every other fucker
on earth
has a podcast

( so in the next year – or so )

other than i
of the long, quiet plods

wandering yon
in the tumbleweed twilight

roaming the gloaming
the hills are still green

breathing the air
of that phantom land’s there

guided by birdsong
( a map in me ears )

home & a sandwich
a book in the bath

hush
or the others
might interview you

vetted by five eyes
the c.c.p
regressive “progressives”
the p.c brigade
weasels in the small print
digital brains
mutant algorithms
& quantum bots

when every other fucker
on earth
has a podcast

( earthlings are such
an original bunch )
…