Doodled oil: frame, drape, and garden.
Lavender green, anaemic blue, grey,
redbrick, bush green, tree green,
jumbled muck brown metal,
shocked gasping yellow bursts.
Yeats and Keats. The chickens!
Missed the Sussex white dabs.
In the coop, having a lie in.
weekend after all. Sun still life.
Cock-a-doodle-do. Get the picture?
Look out!
An ill wind
Coughs: spits out
Lilac phlegm.
Now smell
sweet almond waft
angry onions:
this garden is
full of livid
sad mad
bramble.
Ghoulish dead potato
crazed leek
rise up to
taste
doomed decay
reeking havoc
hear
the cluck as
amok chickens
weep behind trembling
toffee wrappers
See
Behind that mauve shed
a terrible lettuce
is born.
Waiting on pork sausage
We were forced to skelt
willy-nilly
for mute sanctuary from
tampons confounded take on fern hill.
Tea was derationed today in fifty two.
Five eggs variously
boiled Mohr’s scale by Nanny Charperson.
Is it safe?
Can we come out?
Chai or Cha, your High Chairness?
We emerge and return
Waiting for pork sausage
Green and dying in our chains
Ding-a-Ling.