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February 14, 2015

The Strange Case of the Stone in the Night

I sat staring 
wide awake

At a snow white candle on an 
empty round table

Sired for wounding
Or so it feels,

A beast of field & stream
This pelt makes it real:

Lank, soaked, maculate
creaking, cloying

character armour…

A warning!
Do not trip

On the large smooth
shiny spongey
granite muffin

At the door
In the night
It slid there
whipped cajoled & now
wet-nursed by tender
urgent scrubber

Those same
handmaidens
who passed on
this message:

‘I just curled
to say I
love you.
Skip.’

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February 13, 2015

Hermes the Scraps

The wind

Picks up a pace,

carrier bags, paper cups ,

crisp packets, true rumours,

sweet wrappers, where you left off, very light aircraft…

All manner of stuff really

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February 13, 2015

The Amputation

Like Keaton

Granite fey

Agog

Aghast

Watching you

Alone

Walking away

Those sublime hands

Thrust deep

That old grey, fleecy,

Hoody down

Right to leave

While the goings

Bad to bloody

Pointless

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February 11, 2015

Black Sheep

Chill falls fast on fingers,

weighty air,

stark draught,

feet echo shiny,

clicks in corridor.

Still, stall stiff on collar,

chiding air,

bark wrath,

face grotto slimy,

bricks in cellar door

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February 11, 2015

Roxy

Deep dark blue

Indigo Ink

Squids under

Black Seas

She crossed herself

hoping to die

how come she

ended up living

a lie?

A life sentence…

A death sentence…

A syntax of despair…

Quick smart snicker

Polka dot

Gypsy dancer

White skies

Kissed the red earth

Dying to live

Ended up dying

A truth

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February 10, 2015

Carneval

Last night’s feast for lunch instead, postponed due

to pork pies. A Quiche! Bless you. Shrove

next Tuesday. Easter April Five. Another

forty days & forty nights wilderness.

Invert and live in lushious luxury!

The Jolly Messiah, rollicking cove

frolicsome, flatulent, Fallstaffian

Game for a laugh. Fat cross bum. Floozies seep

with laughter. Knickerpissing! Raus, Raus.

Crucifixion riot. Festival of the oppressed.

Why waste carnival on the cold months?

Turn the world upside down in Spring.

Letta tausand blumen blume…

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February 10, 2015

Wrecking Ball

After the ball bounce

Ricochets back between eyes

Reeling in the ears

Stumbling, rumbling, thundering

Tenements lack confidence

Disorientated

Blitzed, razed,

Untenable

Ruins

Sigh out Loud

The urge to destroy is a

Creative Fiction

Born of turbulence

Friction

Dereliction of solemn

Duty.

Developers pursuing

Booty

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February 10, 2015

Meat is Murderous

Goat’s eye moon subsides

Ruthless Heck cows run amok

Von Stroheim goes ape

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February 9, 2015

The Compleat Works of Grimbeau

What kind of fuel are you?

Wind, she replied,

What about you?

Paper

When do they beguine

The beguine?

After the

…

The night had

A thousand

Eyes

Ouch!

Nine hundred and ninety-nine

Nights in White Satin:

Freezin’

Young and green

Only seventeen

okra

Who let the dogs out?

Who let them

in?

And now

The end

Here

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February 8, 2015

Mod-Posternism

‘All the best poets are in advertising’

i heard a flanneur say

so i put him in the compost

and I’ll bury him in May

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