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Anabasis

portrait of a Sicilian girl

Four no rule,

no measure years,

just got back mid-morning:

soft landing,

natives just the same, not me;

too much time to think, you see,

so everything is good or bad up there.

Back with a head full of seaweed, razor

whale gore,

syphilis and carnage. Whodunit?

Ask the guy in the looking glass. He say:

Author of your own destruction

with a little help from your

acknowledgements.

Left is right.

Right is left.

No turning back

You know too much

Late Night Shopping

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Moussaka from Alaska!

Aint

Had any moose

For donkey’s ears.

Jazzy caresses

Tell me:

If you can keep your head

When all around are

Are losing theirs

You can read this.

Skedaddling

Norman's Bay Starfish

Thin whistle distant,

scree creeps,

screeps

sheeps

Cader Idris slopes

off to Dolgellau.

A massif thirst descending.

Old bards tools, blood and quill

discarded in a brogue,

bob along half tidy

Mawdach for

Cardigan’s litterol.

Watch Out!

Soul in fluxion.

 

 

Stand Easy

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…mad rush phantom turd

fear false alarm no bombs

all clear for now slip back

down  fizzy coffee.

air room fug.

World flora crown sill:

red rose,

cactus rose and aloe vera,

baby cactus rose,

yucca – George the summat,

stray leafy leaf

avoids peach tobacco

stage curtains,

old small paned iron strip windows,

titan thickening privet

sprouting lawn,

brick brown semi

some big trees hide

simple horizon

planeless skies

The Threepenny Bit Opera

Three generations of peasant women stand outside their stone cottage in Ireland, 1927

Coming up to six.

End of nice days

after tomorrow

just

for a few weeks.

Auric sun on pink wall,

new bronze age.

Savers saved,

survivors not.

So no cause for concern

then:

Sufficient unto the day

is the evil thereof?

 

Dawned on me…

Duke Ellington and his band in the 1930s

Oxen stare out

ankle deep in mud

catch a flaxen

burst of lux gold sax.

The procession nears:

Madame Charcot,

her Footmen,

borne by

mute lace makers.

They pass,

Waving waxen,

lit by Tilley Lamp

and near full

plumb

moon.

Here to replace

the sleeper.

Then

After that

Matins and Martini.

Misery lurks in the long grass,

armless and still,

like good gone west.

PM

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No post today

Blog and door.

Busy

being unknown by

and to the outside world.

Inside

howsoever

the world was

mad hectic:

sitting reading, eating,

staring, smiling, scowling,

snarling, sighing, tutting

spitting, speaking, saging,

mulling, musing, chuckling,

nodding, turning, snooping,

slurping, sighing, smoking,

standing, stepping, shaking…

That’s  Quite Enough

words commencing

with ‘s’ for now.

Crimea River

Mammoth

Clouds over,

have a grey

smoke – good is

always too

good to last.

Glanced at this

‘…golden words

turn to dust,

war makes you

platitudinous…’

Thinks: Duckbill

Platypus.

 

A boring

genius

scatters wise

word seed on

stony ground.

 

Duck Bill sees.

Eats them quick

before the

blue parrots.

Slips back in billabong.

Polygon.

We Yodel

yodel

Bright green bus,

Blonde dressed black,

Sun kissed feet

‘Good morning!’

 

Yesterday

was pure good

sunlight all the way

today the bricks

 

are happy and

light hearted

I am bronzed.

Like Homer.

 

 

 

Floot

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An hour later

the faff is on.

Sun is out,

chicks tweet

in ply fascia,

ulster hymns hum,

care will come

and relieve

Mafeking

peace and quiet