( some call ’em pockets )

pouches of air
where we keep our keys

in the land of jangles
as we plod along songs

almost tambourines
rhythm in our jeans

sewn on three sides
stitched up like a kipper

folded like space-time
a universe within – with

a scrumpled notebook
perhaps a snotty tissue

a fifty p piece
with the dead queen’s head

a leaky fountain pen
– polo mints for ponies

& friendly rocking horses
the ones that don’t bite

or our hands when nippy
( poor man’s gloves )

shudder on our way
charting parts unknown

in our tool cagoules
& our wanker anoraks

winter calling

after all the conkers fell

in the dingles of the dell

then the squirrels ran away

snuggled up within their drey

see the branches bearing all

like a painter strips a wall

while the sunken sun is bright

in between the frozen night’s

frosted fingers frisking us

in the absence of a buzz

from a single bumblebee

or a butterfly t’see

autumn’s glory left alone

crackles on the telephone

winter calling – there’s the twat

grab some gloves ‘n’ wear a hat

s.t.d’s

stroke the dogwood

soon tomorrow droops

so tuesday’s drizzle

soaks thor’s doorknob

saturn twirls dervishly

see týr disappear

since teatime died

satan torpedoes dagon

singing turnip ditties

sucking turpin’s dick

stand then deliver

sweat twenty droplets

suddenly tumbleweed dances

september tickles december

autumnal acrostic to bear

niseed annals

anoraks aplenty

ndead unicorns

ubiquitous umbrellas

offee apple teeth

ten thousand owls

pland under umbra

unsung uncles

izzle misted mondays

moribund maples

osedive novelties

net-zero nob’eads

ntlered apparitions

adders asleep

izards & lillies

luminescent limboland

songs of the moment so far

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

& poem

& 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