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Tag: Postcard from Today

Cuban Heels

his nibs

 

The mist lifts, revealing droopy,

vernal, Amazonian gloop.

Parallax, do my eyes sin?

 

In the clearing, by the wheelie- bin

The sure sign of alien matter

on the ground,

 

Gin Pink, silver-bowed, twenty some.

Beside these espadrilles, wellies, moccasins,

Clogs, Hush Puppies, Wellingtons…

 

Meaningful action of a sort,

concrete intent shown

But no feet in sight to date,

 

A gradual escalation,

Built on compromise,

a virtuous circle of footwear

 

Like a fairy ring,

a presence in the region.

Something’s afoot

 

Nearing completion

After the socks,

come the feet and arms.

 

 

Erazed

dSKwdAe

 

 

Cool plus

the art of cool:

Isometrics

 

‘woman’s grudge is

women’s definition’

 

pink chink

on a chin,

a sliced face

to sew:

True.

 

The camera

is the woman.

 

It never lies.

 

 

Port Said

 

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In place of dreams:

Streams.

 

Steam Packet

Steams

 

Big white

 

SS Hooper

Smiles

 

Mallards dive South

In Autumn

Turin shrouded

 

hemp sack fog

vanished

 

Will there be Candles?

Yes or No –

Combustion

Laundry

Marquez-14

Good, that stopped the table wobbling!

Went out for a quiet garden moment,

just as I was warming in the soft sun

of early autumn, the army commenced

lawnmower war next door. Disappointed my

plans were scuppered, but undeterred to gain

nothing from my venture, I fetched the washing

from the line and back indoors, though failing

to spur the idle into action, I

consoled myself with the thought of green socks.

Sugar Basketeer

grun

 

Prizing open cocoons

from inside drains

a body dry.

 

Such a struggle!

The sheer effort!

Yet, for me, somehow compelling;

 

the ecstasy of sublime writhing.

Hunger drives it.

Just can’t stop it, help it,

 

like the test your

strength hammer and bell.

Timing is all.

Breathe, hoist, slam.

 

Or perhaps a

better metaphor is

Greco-Roman wrastling?

 

A Dormouse in a

stapled paper bag,

rampaging like a

fart in a trance.

 

 

is fatuous:

Oryx in a coconut

gives a notion

of the dimensions,

 

but at least the fear of asphyxiation is passed …

(The discerning, attentive and functional

amongst you will realise that I am on a rest break).

Publish and be Damned

Visog

The funny papers

Weep today

Fanatic manhunt

Underway.

Rue Morgue Avenue

old-man

 

Bullets rain,

winds prance,

 

Cold suns rise,

firebirds dance.

 

Sirens wail,

beggars chant:

 

Honi soi qui mal y pense.

Message to Roxanna

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Up

for apparent reason

undisclosed.

Harangued

power firm larcenists

with deft wit.

Bathed in bags of lavender oats.

Too much, too much

insouciance.

Satraps gather

at the Gate of Gosh

grovelling for a living

Three Wise Guys

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Epiphany mistook for Advent!

This tells a tale or ten…

Lost is Yulespace, got mashed, and crashed to earth.

Splat!

The last day of Xmas.

 

Today the alchemists bearing the yearly cold, lack of sense and mirth

pitch up, begging favours, selling usury. Usual cobblers;

Wealth, divinity, and death – too late lads, I will say,

Got that on Black Friday mugging happy shoppers

(bagged a drone charger and a ten foot serene flatscreen)

 

No, today its back to bollocks with a bang

Like all good things,

so must bad things

End.

Bring it on, Xenophon!

Metempsychosis

Eve

The temptation to waffle about memories is maple syrup,

something about marked cards, that sort of gooey stuff.

& The very thought of getting into that is just plain

toxic.

Not that I am denying it,

you understand

I just don’t want

to go through all of that.

here and now is where it’s never at.

So, here it is.

Plaintive baroque trumpet sighs

Fanfare, mazurka, and microwave tympani.

Brief running tap crescendo. Mug clunk, bottle top slide.

Faraway, out of sight, a libation is incubating.

The soft clock needs a pacemaker.

Something black is scraped.

A dog crunches twiglets.

 

the  spray distorted blowing of a nose.

A strong clunk of mug.

An awakening.

Something ominous issues from the brass section.

The clock temporarily revives.

An unclear, disembodied voice rings

& reads out an address and claims

that now we have Tchaikovsky for company…

Coughs from above.

An ailing whaling gull?

Creation elation eschews

a humming loo,

Five short bursts enough

precision bombing.

Second wave,

chalk comes up.

The ball was in, man!