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a poem for the sleeping earth
another paper plane to crash
in morning light, the shooting stars
become a silent poltergeist
the garden sings in jangled keys
the compost heap releases gas
alas & bless the second ess
in s.o.s – then d.i.y
yes, bolt each hole – your hermitage
awaits – escape the winter’s gape
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egbert henderson
fifty five puffin drive
gleneagles
e. gulliver
three treecreeper lane
kingfisherston
robin finchley
ten sparrow road
leighton buzzard
oz tritch
six chaffinch crescent
phoenix, arizona
mister p. whittington
four cormorant corner
turkey
hugh duckworth
two peewit avenue
timbuktoucan
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( author notes )
twitcher is a slang term
for a bird watcher
( for those that don’t know )
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come spring – christmas ( s o m e o f a p o e t r y )
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come spring - christmas
floats in the distance
scaring the staring folk
witless & shitless
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in the evening garden there formed a sort of buzz a passing car an in-song thrush & other bits of now merged stuff as one sound collectively as one sonic entity it lasted a second - then left in a rush leaving only silence & the eerie hush of dusk ...
cauliflowers heather collecting feathers eleanor of aquitaine thorpe cloud turin shroud apple pips wednesdays mismanaged antelopes hauntings artichokes marzipan envelopes ...
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