Poems

this little poem

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this little poem  (  meop elttil a  )

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this little poem swam with krakens

this little poem napped with cats

this little poem's up

in the attic

hanging with the bats


this little poem picked a feather

this little poem fingered figs

this little poem fled

from the butcher

running with the pigs


this little poem rang with saturn

this little poem warred with mars

this little poem flapped

back in time &

shined amongst the stars


this little poem bit me finger

this little poem bit a thumb

this little poem swished

with the fishes

fiddle-diddle-dum


this little poem is a pygmy

this little poem is a dwarf

this little poem sang

with the faeries

on canary wharf


this little poem painted paris

this little poem roamed in rome

this little poem scrawled

hopscotch toss-pot

squall the ways home

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chocolate orange flamethrowers

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chocolate orange flamethrowers  (  meop tsil a )

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chocolate orange flamethrowers

a calendar of colanders

satsumas in stockings blue

the ghost that writes biographies

has inked & typed another one

a pike upon a bicycle

a wind up wind-up wine merchant

a tartan painted garden gate

or sign of life on marzipan

this shit - it sticks like cinnamon

a jar of shredded marmalade

a phantom bantam paperweight

a goblin in a cable car

or unicorn in uniform

& peas within the mushy air

the numbers for the lottery

- & a parsnip in a pear tree

( amen )

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squill in the blanks

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squill in the blanks  (  pu yaw siht  )

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squill in the blanks

milking the thistle

silver & whistle

rivers & banks


rivers & banks

mist in the morning

squinter is calling

squawking the planks


squawking the planks

cabbages clatter

salad & splatter

licking the stamps


licking the stamps

biting the weather

hiding in whether

fighting the lamps


fighting the lamps

striking the silent

gasses & giants

tigers in tanks


tigers in tanks

frost in a forest

forage for porridge

flap in the flanks


flap in the flanks

flim in the fettle

cottage & kettle

sod it & thanks


sod it & thanks

piss in a bucket

squiggle & fuck it

squill in the blanks

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squinter wonderland

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squinter wonderland  (  semyhr ym ssik  )

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ripple river mistletoe

as the badgers babylon

yonder is a summer swan

singing in the sinking sand


dancing are the branches bear

there within the squinter wood

gloves upon the fingertips

flutters of the butter hand


frost upon a buttercup

chocolate in a steaming mug

sleep is on the eiderdown

brown is england's pheasant gland


tig is murder in the dark

turkeys lurk on haunted moors

hark, the herald herons lark

marching with a rubber band


tinsel dims a mantelpiece

peas is in the mushy air

clouding as a mountain hare

licks the lips of hinterland


crunching is the munching trudge

sunken is the silver sun

synthesis & witnesses

shitless in the witless stand


mulling is the cider wine

dragons nap as ivy climbs

yetis ski as ribbons wrap

knotted as an ampersand


speckles on the bonnet white

poets ponce & sonnets shite

snow & snow - & snow we glow

in a squinter wonderland

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