Green balloon plummets
Petrified screeches
Thud, thud, thud, whoosh, bang
We ran toward it
The scene unfolded
Before we knew it
The horse had bolted
Weirdos,
acid casualties,
a-minor people,
hanging off
the Phalange,
stuck in gunge,
malingering & snivelling
by the out pipe,
doing the what the fucks and who am I’s.
Can you hear me?
‘…there he was sat, bold as brass, plain as day,
stone deadpan serious, as if he was my judge.
I ask you!
Bulling on about ‘the great doings & dones’
sounding like a brat bragging about
the darning of the sacred
socks of Nemesis… ‘
In short, one may conclude,
a blow by blow account
of how wind gets out the bag:
why the turtle turns turtle,
and the attributes of the perfect carrot.
It was to his credit that he chose
to demean himself to
the baying hordedlavishers
that dwelt upon every word ,
as if, perhaps, they were his last,
and,
that they would get a mention in the will,
despatches, or the mind of God,
his father,
who was in heaven-by-the sea.
‘…By gum, though, he sported lovely, kind, peepers
and one of those whimsical smiles
that always give you a tingle in the dingle.
Herdsman, craftsman…
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Showered the bloated, glabrous, noisome oxen;
descended, short of breath, to a cleaner pit
to heft pots of beans, defrost a halved slab
of gauche bread, fainted in a serviette, came
to in a perfumed tea tree enveloped in tune
to Donne claiming he’d also given the sun
a run for its money through a wrought iron gate
Twinkle, tinkle
Brittle Jar
Far too full
That’s what you are
Sat up haughty
On the shelf
Playing with
My mental health
…
Please speak ill of me
When I am gone
We can agree on
that at least…
same sarcastic shite
rings in my mind’s crusty ear
at times like this when
flounders mock a flatfish…
imaginary arguments
ring true like now
I blow my mind’s nose
Sempiternally…
Why the ellipses…?
Wring out the paper mawkish
Tears of afternoon
Make the best of shit
Evensong
Dripped
spent cartridge
kaleidoscope
compound vivid fractures
small perfect green shamrock
blossoms thrive oddly
the earth smells brown
~
Laud’s Book of Common Prayer
Chimes like drafty field mice
Checking out the winter lodging
~
Afterwards
By the round
Complexity
Profound squalid textures
Loom large acute strandscape
Suds weave osprey
The sea smells green
When I left my trousers
In your heart of hearts
I never expected
Pleats as sharp as these