Poetry

wednesday afternoon

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wednesday afternoon ( noonretfa yadawndew )

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wednesday afternoon
is dipping ginger nuts

in the vicar’s teacup
& watching the clocks

plodding like a slug
while the bus is late

like a dead actress
or a blizzard in june

furthermore she walks
up a muddy hill

underneath a buzzard
sploshing in puddles

strums a string vest
’til its out of tune

while the clouds growl
scrumps the doctor’s apples

types upon a qwerty
‘this is not my alphabet’

sweats like a führer
shivers in the mist

laughing with hyenas
high on nitrous oxide

as the earth whirrs
from noon until evening

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( noted )

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( noted ) ( deton )

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two fat robins
bobbing in a bird bath

breakfast in a bap
as the moon aligns with neptune

wind on the face
with an untied shoelace

dinner’s on the pavement
mushy peas ‘n’ chips

rubber chickens clucking
in a blue rucksack

tupped-up ewes
winter barley rising

parsnips in the greenhouse
cows in their sheds

shoots of wild garlic
peeping like a perv

where the air is weaving
dogs run in circles

as a masky gasps
in a car – on his own

eight grey herons
venus in retrograde

burnt black toast
& a sleeping smoke alarm

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those imaginary penpals

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those imaginary penpals ( slapnep yranigami esoht )

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martin p. parsnip
seventeen narnia crescent
winchesterchester

susan lamashtu
thirty three coleslaw corner
of your hinterland

hercule humidor
forty four droopy drawer’s road
ruritania

anne mcdroidson
two-b-nine-w-two
one-y-nine-h-8

goneril goshawk
thirteen codology mews
planet caravan

astaroth windsor
six six six j. saville row
( the necro-dungeon )

genghis carnation
eighteen gravy boatswain lane
anus, uranus

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& the days became stranger

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& the days became stranger ( regnarts emaceb syad eht & )

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after the spanners
in the ever bending fortnight

life on planet pantomime
went a wonky way

pot banger’s clapped
as the flesh-bots flapped

normalzzz shat its pants
& hoarded all the bog roll

since is a gibbon
tangled in pink ribbons

or a sylphid song
on beyond the swan

thunder cracked the eggshell
split like a pea

days became stranger
than a mandrill’s rectal passage

clouds on the ground
pissed upon the stars

’til the parsnip people
memes within the genes

them of roundabouts
sliding by the swings

saw the weasel’s strings
& fluttered little wings

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a memory down trip lane

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a memory down trip lane ( enal pirt nwod yromem a )

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i recall the fall

in my geriatric armchair

      slurping lucozade

      in a crystal cognac glass

stroking my cravat

as if it were a cat

      back between naps

      scratching the annals –

once upon the cobbles

a wobble followed through

      a trip of a slip

      on rain-glazed stone

so the stormy glows

like the embers of remember

      misted like a morning

      on a meadow by a river

went the then of me

soaring in the air

      high on banana skins

      & nuerofen plus

flying like a fish

arse over elbows

      stumble up & gone

      crashing with aplomb

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have you seen the trees?

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have you seen the trees? ( ?seert eht nees uoy evah )

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hairy fairy aerials
wooden antennae

stubble of the land
hugger of i

on a wander’s pause
watchers of the forest

towers fit for owls
dendrous cousins

them of up above
dryad gaff’s

pixie apartment’s
lumberjack fodder

sunbeam deflector’s
squirrel castle’s

bracers of gales
barking like a dog

battlers of storms
tamers of the jet stream

shades of the glades
rain neutralisers

have you seen the trees?
logged & noted too?

our friends arboreal
as they’ve seen you

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