Hill
Eight six five crackles
Hot charcoal stumps spit fire
Occasional scowls
Just about sums it all up
Must have slipped away last night
Eight six five crackles
Hot charcoal stumps spit fire
Occasional scowls
Just about sums it all up
Must have slipped away last night

…fall Rain strawberry Rainbow
Midsummery night dream Fruitcup
blitz UP strawberry moon juice nice
drenches tense empurlpled Wrenches
spring’s offensive flourish nascent lulls
leaves droop drip tremble crepid–
such things I saw in
Borehamwood
a certain cure for summer flood
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
Cyril Sloth ate all
through the tempest
spanking the panes,
whipping the shrubs,
wiping the eyes of
Sussex and Cypress
Midday…
Morseless rain all morning,
Steady persistent, ruthless, insistent,
Yet sometimes relenting
snide off-pisser.
So…
We Diggers curse this argent,
quick drip liquid,
call it a gluttonous mire hawker
(and sometimes worse)
Then…
Plangent noon sun stops play.
An early lunch and cribbage
Approaches from the West.
As Buddha flies over the cuckoo’s nest.

Slipshod throwaway
Chewing gum sticks to soles
Performance inhibitor
Callous sabotage
Of what once was promising
Mobility cops the blame
Not incompetence
Completely lacking talent
Or application
Focussing on task before
Cart precedes the horse…
moan, loan,own epidemic
distracts captive audience
Compulsory fear & loathing
Turns the upside down
& the downside up
repugnant sticky fungus
Culpability, imbalance, the dreaded lurgy stalks the porchway, the hamster hutch, the arboretum, and blunt spikes inbetween; night violates day with bags of murk and lovage
Indubitably, it calls itself Monday, brimful with sullen, clumsy passion worthy of a bread poultice infused with watery French mustard, limp alfalfa and toadstool
Tedium is just a damp blanket on a burnt out chip pan, a brisk riddling with formaldehyde never fails to yield staggering exultation at such junctures
Zoroaster caught herpes off a loathsome vet this day in nine sixty seven, the news when leaked by the skivvies, met with scant compassion
Axolotl harvest late due to line maintenance in the eucalyptus groves of transcendent Hobart-on-Sea
The best things in life are prohibitively expensive due to a series of botched algorithms, a perfect storm, and the bells of St Clement Danes
Slice up the orange
segments on…
aluminium sink top
undulant altarpiece
Orange offering
A savant of the rite
wipes rustic
ludic breadknife
serrates thick zest
splices pith, quartiles
flesh in succulent
ghoulish
garish
gauche
gum shields
skin & pith intact
snaffled up cutish
tense borne by bent paw
over caustic chasm
Sure chariot passes
Imperious, regal, sublime
Sedate above vile
sundry understuffs:
Abysmal unmentionables,
Microbial, teeming rakes
Gyrating about the obscene floor
one of my heads in
bindweed, strangulating
taut shoelace gristle,
fleet heat seeking
missile, destination
amygdala sun spot