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a stormy spell

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s hiver little villagers

shudder shuffle gusts

t erraforming roars

tungsten tusk thrusts

o ver battered haddock

operatic dales

r asping phantom raspberries

rides off the ghost train’s rails

m agonia’s revenge

madman weather maps

y es, it’s just beginning

yet the thunder claps

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also included

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triple a batteries

the barbary ape of seville

marmalade sunsets

ratatouille dawns

troubadours in transit vans

tomorrow’s toenails

a spare pair of underpants

a second class stamp

a paper teapot

the earless of skegness

hedgehogs in her kisses

babybels – & jacob’s crackers

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eggs again for breakfast

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east is cracking up
after the cockerel

crows of a morrow
then shells smash

eggs again for breakfast
yolky yokels cheer

here lie the scrambled
like a rubik’s hypercube

so today is poached
or cackles in a pan

or a saucepan’s bubbles
eat what you’re upon

out on a dawn walk
watching the sky

clouds become soldiers
dipping in vitellus

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then came the rain

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tiptoes in
crackle static radio

volume up
birdsong on mute

not from russia
but magonia with love

kittens then cats
catch in a bucket

facing the grey
shades of old parrots

kisses down in africa
hard on a humdrum town

so’s track one
peter’s red lament

planes over spain
spiders climbing spouts

listen to the music
of the splosh symphonic

when the sky snarls
like a feral snark

then came the rain
quenching then drenching

dogs upon dogs
fools in cagoules

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silly sausage sunrise

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sing a song of cobwebs

odd is a sod

      silly sausage sunrise

      sixty seven starlings

tea lights dancing

while the pen is puzzled

      like the p in ptarmigan

      silent like an anus

in the depths of space

still the gas gasps

      parping on mute

      muddles of a morn’s

moonbeam aftermath

how now, missus cow?

      too soon for beans

      or potato waffles

intermissions winter

still quills spring

      all is an autumn

      summer dyed her ginger pubes

do you do agadoo

every other tuesday?

      is there an echo?

      cripes, i bloody hope so

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september then

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september then

      a christening of cobwebs

a backendish scratch

      a squirrel’s smorgasbord

hazelnuts & acorns

      horde before the storms

strike like the trains

      & autumn takes the reigns

with a glass refrain

      seven green bottles

iridescent socks

      treecreepers sneaking

wander on & see

      what percy shaw saw

the purring dreams

      of shrödinger’s catnap

october’s onions

      pickle in a jar

the sun is still a star

      further than before though

soon is never yet

      ratatouille sunsets

redden like a rose hip

      so we glow home

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september sketch

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haunting the orchard, don’t disappear

left heel blister, here with the living

newton’s eureka, rose hypnosis

citro stratus, cumulus canvas

strophic strokes, grey squirrel gathering

cobweb letterheads, pink lady crunch time

brushes ‘n’ rushes, breezes ‘n’ sneezes

russet rumble, jumble sale sky

time is traffic lights, geese skeins fly

vee-sign language, granny smith missive

thought-forms float, almost a duffel coat

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