Poem
saturday morning observations
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saturday morning observations ( snoitavresbo gninrom yadrutas )
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passing cars but nothing parks eyes are tired but up with larks floating in a duffel coat sucking on a menthol sweet daffodils & spots of frost mirror men in empty shops vomit on a cobbled street broken glass & doner meat scribbles spit within the bonce swans upon the river mist piss'eads sleep in bedfordshire in an english country coma hit the fields & breathe the breeze underneath a silken sun fuck the queen & hug a tree birdsong in the bushes ...
midwinter song
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midwinter song ( gnos retniwdim )
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hymn in the morning choruses calling hear in the headland banging a gong here in the blearing snowing a trumpet ringing a springing ding & a dong snore a recorder frost's a conductor warming y' whistle whetting the strong fog on the fiddle murmurs of drizzle yodel til clover bursts in a throng bare in the woodland curses & verses sprinkles of crystal whiting the wrong mist on the lyre wailing & higher there by the fire's where we belong glowing & gliding scaling & sliding icicles chiming midwinter song bees in the bumbles strumming a summer mince as a minstrel stringing along ...
snail’s pace
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snail’s pace ( ecap s’lians )
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slug's trudge ...
seven pence in shrapnel
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seven pence in shrapnel ( lenparhs ni ecnep neves )
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seven pence in shrapnel in a green jacket pocket starlings - as grandma is trapped in a jam jar the ghost of last candlemas floating up an oak tree swans on a duckpond & porridge for supper ...
as catkins nap
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as catkins nap ( pan sniktac sa )
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a drip-drap tap a black bat flap epistles whistles this & that as catkins nap ...
back in the green
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back in the green ( neerg eht ni kcab )
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back in the green jill up a hillock jack is a pillock scraps in between scraps in between yonder for blossom winter's a possum summer's a queen summer's a queen blurs in the weather bird it together feathers & preen feathers & preen sing in the woodland scheme as a hoodlum shim in the sheen shim in the sheen yawn in the dawning scrawls in the morning dip in a dene dip in a dene follow the plover roving for clover sights to be seen sights to be seen lowland to highland hopping this island spring is a bean spring is a bean burbles & scouting circles & sprouting back in the green ...
spring’s seasonal setlist
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springs seasonal setlist ( tsiltes lanosaes sgnirps )
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birdsong at dawn bees on a breeze hocus crocus pocus croaks in a pond blowin' on a garden hose cherry blossom blizzard blues shrews in me shoes the foxglove foxtrot the dance of the daffodils the lamb baa duh & greensleeves ( cover ) ...
sheep in negative yellow
yet to be seen
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yet to be seen ( nees eb ot tey )
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bright magenta poltergeists springing lambs & barking snarks song upon a choral dawn boxing frogs & singing larks needles in a loft of hay uncle arthur's vanished keys polka dotted hinterland marbles, cats & memories novelists with plots & schemes filling dots & missing socks gleamings of a golden sun skiving skies & hiding flocks victory for also ran crocuses & ghosts with tans friday since last saturday signs of life on marzipan ( ? ) ...