Category Archives: Poetry

new-1 is a clown as a man of the lowlands upside-down a cloud   no fool & around the very berried field mimicking the gloam   posed so on his head tophat or beret or cap where fat rabbits nap   doves do fly away as the ladies pass in halves do you think theyContinue reading “Who Swore He Saw Swallows”

a cold-water flat albeit in a basement an’ as for all that   there’s only one sink ‘tho never corsair nor king to bother a dream   as free to forgive every ordeal to arrive no less an ideal

now-1 no-1 know him as Charlie Potatoes brother of Spark Plug   also their sister who is estrangement herself and no-1 knows that   when there’s a boiler mama’s wood-cookin’ the stew no surprise the steam

only the galloon of the captain’s worn cap-side wind lash at capstan   as knot an abscence shorn leaf to rest a port sense accepts the passage   all in her store-boughts fore him in galligaskins thatman at starboard

She’ll  think I am broke ‘tho I’m wearin’ the good brogues to jig for a pogue   Still she’ll look stony on the moss o’ the blarney can ya fancy that   when the banshees dance she’ll knot a pig in a poke and I’ll have the corn’d