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rivers on the run ( nur eht no srevir )

…

live ‘n’ letter diagrams
westerly wheezes
dazes in a floral chain
rabbit with a gun

diametric diaphragms
firefly friezes
gibbons on a lizard brain
underneath the sun

hypnotists ‘n’ holograms
hopes ‘n’ smoked cheeses
wobbles on a cobbled lane
icing on a bun

logarithmic monograms
pantomime pleases
porpoises in pouring rain
twiddle’s fiddle-dum

iridescent pentagrams
peppermint sneezes
operation paper plane
rivers on the run

telepathic telegrams
bumblebee breezes
bonce upon a once again
quill the deed is done
…

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hence in eleven ( nevele ni ecneh )

…

hi-vis

vest strings

west winds

lo-fi

field day

day-glo

robin hood

dogwood

mistle thrush

cat naps

& thistle milk

…

~

picnic in the rain ( nair eht ni cincip )

…

shiver on a bench
bathing in a sunless grey
bask in britain’s drench

as the stratus gush
buckets on this darkened park
bread is formless mush

sandwiches collapse
like a castle on the beach
as the tide attacks

cirrus rat-a-tat
spilleth cups of former fizz
lemonade is flat

crisps have lost their crunch
where the piss is pounding down
sodden is this lunch

still the river roars
run before it eats us all
bugger off indoors
…

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a spiky sight ( thgis ykips a

…

see the giant cotton buds

spotted like measles

on the grasses, greening so

in amongst weasels

adders circle underfoot

feast upon beetles

lo, upon the yonder’s rise

climbing like steeples

bristled as a paddle brush

prickled like needles

of a morning’s wander on

oh, it’s those teasels

…

~

splodge it & scarper ( repracs & ti egdolps )

…

pluck a plum as if a lute
topple not saturnal crowns
flap away the fruits of may
blather nuts & gather nouns

up before a fall asleep
scrawling like a spider scribe
thinking like a kitchen sieve
live ‘n’ letters diatribe

when the hen’s a pecking pen
& the goblins gobble grapes
she’s a lizard lottery
mistress of the apes ‘n’ scrapes

i, the spillage idiom
riddle eight a choral clue
like a leaping salmon flies
brief is butter finger too

spilling bags of magic beans
dancing ants in pantomimes
turning topsy terpsichore
tossing ’til the wanker rhymes

see a sea of seven stars
strut a pheasant’s rusted gait
then the garden gargles green
giz a wave – & oscillate
…

~

basho’s broken ribs ( sbir nekorb s’ohsab )

…

shat, twat, bollocks, shit

tosser, bellend. wanker, dick

fuck, cunt, fucker, fuck

…

~

fill in the … ( …eht ni llif )

…

b adgers barking, hark

   but the pen’s a pencil case

   bugger all calling

l et there be spanners

   lemon scented letterheads

   light another tab

a nswer with antlers

   attack like helicopters

   arses in the air

n otice then the clocks

   nincompoop this interlude

   not stop ticking

k iss a magic kipper

   kick invisible tree stumps

   knight this greening night

s ight before vision

   scribbles on sabbaticals

   salmon swim sideways

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