Serpentine (A Phoenix Peaks Out)
by grimbeau
Pearlsome Cantilever swing bridge creeks
Solid Sluice gates greenly gush
Early midges fuss late shade
Formica chairs distress damp glade
~The Koran was first
Translated into
Plain english in 1649
Bunyan fecundates 1688–1676
Trump and brood slow sipping crude
March becomes October
somehow down the five & dime
Old bones crowd the charnel house
Anyone alight tonight?
Straw dipped in molasses
Sticky insects play snap
Ink on a pen dries so quick
Catch 22 or Charles 1 part three
Rough or smooth- you serve
Men’s semis all day
detached retinues straggle
bewildered
thinking in purple
thinking in amber
petrol smells wondrous
in summer frocks grey bellied
scudders bear witness
overhead inducing unforced errors
Two upturned treaders imply a divide
snow topped concave like suspension
bridge over a giant causeway of clipped loam
almost lime
almost biscuit
play an extra point
Chalk came up Deuce
Let second service