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I dreamt about pea shells
I’ve got curly pea shoots poking green fingers through my pink toes And puckered pea pods bursting at the seams So tight They’ve expanded so fast With ideas Protruding out of cerebral matter That such harvest couldn’t get any fatter But can’t be plucked For they are Too tightly woven and matted with the thorns […]
Bluebird
Chalky milk tuft and pinion You are the lampshade Perching on my head. Blink coal beads and Stare back peck golden. With a swift shuffle Fine blue fluffy fluff Twist coils, turn screws Eat, pick, gnaw, rub and Tac, tac, tac. Bony hooks grip each hair, Corner of swinging frame, Yes contented to be your […]
Lead
& these hands they drop too easily to rest and hang lolloping free but leaded & this nobbled chin slants down so inevitably look for the cracks slide pavement slabs long and further down this concrete towering street feel too small to cope so dull metal iron-licked keys miss their locks & laces fly undone […]
Dumb
Dumbell arms drop, sag and be done Like anchor-chains cast Shooting fast into wild black depths Where I cannot see the bottom. Fingers crawl crab-like across lettered squares Tap, tap, tap. Inside of me, there is a howl, an angry howl A crying wolf of a howl That stretches neck to show my bare chest. […]
Chicken
And the world stands still But Spins furiously Ripped fabric like muscle Mine’s sagging Under weight. Drained and repurposed Hardwood, cold wood, under foot. Feel skin so smooth-pressed and stretched With sweaty imprint Cats’ paws padded leather Slippery yet firm. I’m standing With this dizzy Washing-machine stomach Fizzing acid roots up through shallow gut Till […]
Burnt
My legs are wobbly jellied eels Bones deformed yet heavy-leaded anchors Like when I’m sick from flu, sweating, Reaking sweet cough syrup and Rolling around in blankets. Oh, I’m a pig stuffed at Christmas And I can hear me squealing. Stuck holding a candle Even when it’s burnt my hands Even when the light has […]
Salt looks like sugar
Bad brine spiced alkaline-soaked sodium chloride Beef drippings, bacon racked and savoured serrano Hanging drying in breezeless dog day dead And then, this cur, wretched tramp just schlepps Scraping old leather on grained hardwood so, Letting calefication slip away Through acute open crevice The door lies ajar. Hound growls deep, so deep Dust shakes, peace […]
The Door of Dissonance
My ear is pressed up against the door So that my flesh is sucked in its cold state Gently glued and it does linger. This touch to our metallic portal has a strange allure Straining to hear beyond into backcountry wilderness. Was that wild moan the wind circling elegantly through the trees’ leaves, Or perhaps […]
Grain
[In response to ‘ This Lime-tree Bower my Prison’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I am not who once I was Neither you Be true, be frank. Where once my tree did hold fruitful bower Flush with leaves and berry for the picking Now look! I have lost. Rings engraved in grain circle ever higher But […]
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