august’s haiku salad

…

five fat chaffinches

chariots of fireflies

motorway jam sets

~

ice cream vangelis

episodic bird scarers

ruffle your crow’s feet

~

pan is a panda

valkyries in waxed bikinis

aspidistra this

~

climate cult sirens

fruit cake bots in green jackboots

grey day afternoons

~

hedgehog holidays

scrumping blueberry moonbeams

splendiferous shite

~

hosepipe hosiery

rumplestiltskin’s swingball serve

is a hunchback hand

…

the twelve days of summer

…

twelve flymos droning

eleven bullocks chasing

ten tarquins blocking roads

nine wankers glamping

eight cornettos melting

seven welly wangers

six gingers burning

five wasp stings

four bursting bangers

three love bites

two farmer’s wives

& a cuckoo in a peach tree

…

( author notes )

we wish you a merry summer
we wish you a merry summer
we wish you a merry summer
& a happy new autumn
– ho, ho, ho

…

tisnart ni

…

the wheels on the bus

of the rail replacement service

      go round & round – when

      the unions put their foot down

until the traffic lights

turn blue for a change

      as that cosmic trickster

      is a constant spanner

as the sails on the boats

waiting for the isobars

      to clash like a martian

      in a red spacesuit

in between gusts

settle like the dust

      onto the cobwebs

      inside your nan’s knickers

so the wings of the planes

of origami airlines

      fly like a crane

      or a scrumpled ball of paper

into the recycling bin

of back to the drawing board

      until that effing drawing board

      is reinvented

…