Grimbeau

Scroodles

Category: Poetry

Whaling

Flensed moonstruck vivid

Carcass oozing midnight oil

A scream breaks within

What Dolores did:

She came

She saw

She lingered

Dawn Curfew

Electric off for new

pole & cable till two pm,

so no internet,

phone, heat, cooker…sun out

though, or at least

simple Silence!

*

Make coffee eitherway.

The Burial at Thebes on

the cd-player…

Half-eleven

…still no poles, thus no cables, thus no grub.

Ate crisps,

slurped cold coffee,

listened to Heaney, trapped.

*

About tooth-hurty

Power restored thanks to

Kerry & Belgrade

civilisation’s end

is rewired

Sweet Home

Most every dusk

I am obliged

To check

the lobster pots

fourteen crooked

steps

(there are rusted

Wobbly rails)

Most nights zilch

However

Sometimes

In the lapping

Crouched desperate

Grey as granite

In favoured splash

One is caught,

Trapped

In time by tide

The Homecoming when…

cows bell on

in vain

we wait in

vain… …

Alpenhorn

*

door thuds

drum

dull…

a trick

resounds on

Matterhorn

rain fun rumble

three sang along

in the rain again,

smirked chortling

dutifully wept

sentimental soapy

tears mourning

for some life

through opaque panes

ill wind crusty gusts

dry blown punchy,

rain splashed,

citron yellow

forsythia endures,

rose hip plumage crests

nascent runner beans

catch a wind whispers

coy callous menace

*

my stomach flutters,

argent tensions bristle,

angst swallows thrill,

thus I turn granite,

search for quarry

*

some plumbing rattles,

a rat up a pipe,

a hoopoe head banging

a tin tray…

prospects of shower shrinking,

postponement permitted

till pre-luncheon…

What?

Conrad!

Incomprehensible

Till he learnt

 

Dive

five

still alive

jive

 

Recuperation

situationism

suggests the notion

of doing things like jumping

back in the third floor window

of my ground floor bungalow:

reinfenestration