thrown alone

~

thrown alone ( enola nworht )

…

x marks the spotlight

up in the rafters

      flapping with phantoms

      & pipistrelle bats

barking at moonbeams

soon is a peewit

      possibly lapwing

      – when will it rain?

pounding a rhythm

sound in this schism

      scrawling from normalzzzz

      them of the gone

pardon my languish

franglais & spanglish

     scratching the drift

      of a plank – with a twig

splitting like atoms

peas or bananas

      shifting like poles

      – not the cats or dancers

whistle as she’s tilting

sploshing like a birdbath

      speak a twisted tongue

     ’til the seed is dung

…

only 7p poem

~

only 7p poem ( meop p7 ylno )

…

paper plane tickets, please

pickled peppermint tea bags

pissing pluto in retrograde

post-school pupils dilate

pews of pupae in lieu

peanut butter sandwiches

pandimesional panpipes

…

the horned odd

~

the horned odd ( ddo dernoh eht )

…

strawberry jam
setting like cement
settle down clouds
september whispers

whisk like an egg
silver stream ripples
purring with purple
heather in patches

eyes on the gold
old english oak leaves
rowley’s treehouse
see how they rhumba

over the clover
waltzing with walnuts
bungalows buzzing
bees in the kitchen

ring then saturn
bells in green chapels
knell like gwyn
chaffinches chase

tales of a comet
if the walrus falls
build back butter
beans, cups ‘n’ balls

…

the couplets cometh

~

the couplets cometh ( htemoc stelpuoc eht )

…

out the river’s mouth
from a seaward south

bounds between the leaps
like a salmon creeps

or a bear awakes
where the air is snakes

from the thicket’s throb
& a chancer’s gob

springing as a lamb
as the damsons jam

on the sodden earth
kicking clods of turf

rocking like a chair
in the western air

horsing with a wheeze
on an eastern breeze

or a northern wail
scree beneath the veil

where the crow’s a dove
pairing like a glove

from another time
in the life of rhyme

so the poets pen
of a pickled then

…

silent start

~

silent start ( trats tnelis )

…

dawn mimes a yawn

see with subtitles

      unplug headphones

      speakers unspeak

float as a stoat

in a magic dream coat

      walk with the paws

      of a feline ninja

note like a book

then with a pen

      phantom g in gnarl

      secret p in ptarmigan

double u in whore

all is before

      back from the past

      fruitful is a future

statues snooze

so gnostic gnomes

      twist knight knickers

      wrens wriggle then

clouds unshroud

owls count sheep

      in the mizzle’s creep

      when poltergeists sleep

…

as the saying glows

~

as the saying glows ( dwolg gniyas eht sa )

…


middle of the mourning


riddle of the night


light the good flight


clutching at strawberries


as the saying glows


with buttercup fingers


may contain nutmeg


speak when spoken tulips


you shut your goblin


little so & soy


do you feel the lovage?


too many cuckoos


soil the broth

…