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July 18, 2014

The Bagpiper

He piped the music slow, careful.

Buzzing,

buzz, buzz, buzz

Not on my nose!

Don’t land…

Too late.

Freeze, Mr. Piper, or the nose gets it.

Sweatbeads: adrenalin: tremble.

Try a blow? Little up draught.

Macroscopia.

Make small big.

Blow responsibly.

Music is oozing from the nozzle,

mauve music magma.

Blow now!

Blew

Sting, recoil,

drop music funnel

notes splatter cake.

Eyes flood

Half blind.

Grab, miss, panic

cake on floor…

…nose throbs, cross eyes

purple lump.

Buzz gone, job done,

fact of life

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July 5, 2014

Pelaton!

Galactic dawn,

wet as water:

Ponds ’r’ Us!

Like a mucky duck

the weatherman

walks on warm, thin ice,

looking up anxiously

Sees

serene green scene

creams obscene

at tulips pouting,

kind epileptic fish,

sanguine potholed saucepans

latterday Saturday vertebrae.

Endless list: catalyst.

We swoon,

shrug it off,

embrace

turnover leaves

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June 29, 2014

Pondlife

Up it is:

dithered, dawdled, dallied.

Barnes out: Barnes in.

Door shut and locked.

Took pills,

tectonic shift,

Subterranean Bogseat Blues.

Poohs.

Ah-aarghs.

It’s Alive!

groaning, churning, burning.

Awakenings: pondlife.

Crawling vision.

POV:

Thing gropes

Pathless:

mud, reed, slime, sludge

for warm, dry land.

Slow as a Boa.

Protozoa.

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June 28, 2014

Deuterium Climes

Rain, sultry rain.

Opaque grapes,

leaden sky fruit,

burst on copious,

oil dark

plush olive,

swooning,

spaded,

luscious leaves.

Three chirrup

kaleidoscope toucans

tenderly engage

a dopey puffin then

hunker down within

the livid dense canopy

to share a light

repast of slender wafers

over a convivial round

of knock out whist.

Tuesdays,

no matter the weather,

is Housey-Housey,

a rainforest favourite

throughout the ages.

Beastlings from yards

Around always

Attend

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June 26, 2014

Cinders

Too sad to write,

wash my quill in saline

then candle quash.

Thrift shines,

lights the copper scuttle carving

a giant shadow

on hearth

matter

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June 26, 2014

Jasper Bush

Fickle

Shadows

Juggle

quick, startling sun spores

A spook of

Ions

Coalesces

to unveil

Jasper Bush

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June 24, 2014

Waters Took

Moodpainter…

Stitched up

like a kipper.

Slow train fuming.

Touch light blue paper.

Electric smoke smell.

Flicker.

Glimpse candle

spunk in shade.

Dragonfly and scallion:

Pork medallion.

Bang.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Is that you?

No.

Knobsides?

Not got any.

Stuck then.

Coalholed in one.

Albatross

humming like a hawser

In a fall squall

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June 22, 2014

The Zest Fest

Get this thrill

Be no martyr

No Sidhartha

Spill no beans

Midsommer

Green scene

Thunder peel

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June 20, 2014

Fitzcaraldo

Lunchtime.

Chilly when the sun goes plug

Ate bits of last night.

Took my drugs.

Green Cold Amber.

Sun in and out.

Epiphany!

Garden excursion with coffee and cheroot.

Stare at puffy blue song swan vistas.

Make an inventory!

A gossamer feather, white as the lamb;

a cutting crowded rusty burner

(By-law say no burning till seven

on dint of death by fire; A plethora of flies.

Cut my Leg? Crimson Orinoco.

The expedition returns to base.

Bloodied but unbruised.

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April 18, 2014

Forethought…Paws

Smart,

smug Smart Alec sat,

soiled by ibex ordure,

popping vindicates

at established fates.

Marquis de Plonqueur

Mozart Violet echoes

conch in Sea.

All is stop.

No ghosts,

(One did look!)

The door!

Is that a dog?

Would it, could it be?

Back from killing conies,

flushing out fat farm rats,

haring up hills,

racing gannets on the strand.

Yes, don’t be silly,

it was here,

it was her.

Fresh as the icy, blue zephyr,

that bid me: ‘How are Ye?’

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