Grimbeau

The Pelican’s rigged
moored up gangplank quakers
smooth & clipped & trimmed:

Larboard leans a dandy cove

barbered, oiled, manicured, pinked
crimped dripping trinkets whistling

Lydia, Oh Lydia! You Encyclopedia

shrimplines
rippled woollen topiary
A king size poodle shivers-
Freshly cropped powder monkeys,
Going
by the
same name:
Alice…ali…sss

(plaintive howl, stones-throw yelp on bubbly shoreline, middle-distant sprinter spurts)

Doggy-paddles
Pristine crimson one piece suit flashed jagged:

Alice!
Past green orange writhing blip