My country cousins live better than me

The Amazing Replacement Moth

Who Says a Smolt Can’t be a Smelt?

A Heads Up on the Screw Up

The Spider-Caller

​if you wake up dizzy spinning in your bed it could be that a spider’s making cobwebs in your head ​ you’ll need a spider-caller her name is Madame Redd her services are free that’s how she keeps her lizard fed

City Fishing

sardines from a can on the end of a string pierced with a hook what’s that gonna bring dangling from a window you won’t catch a thing hungry hands and fingers and fingers have rings!

The Most Important Part of the Room – The Blinds

the Doge of the Venetian Blinds decides, decides, decides, decides how much light will we let in will we be fat or very thin though once we’re set we are forgotten without our help there’s no light brought in if the sun’s the bride and the eye’s the groom then we’re the most important part [...]

The Bell People

The bell people, they didn’t ring, They didn’t talk, they didn’t sing. They didn’t whine, make a kerfluffle, All they really did was shuffle. They walked in packs, with footsteps neat, All you could see was their feet. They’d walk through town on each Bell Day Silently shuffling, then away.

[Have you seen my cork?]

Have you seen my cork? I’m asking cause I’m ill. I’ve lost my cork and fallen down, Now all I do is spill.

do you have any rain to wring?

do you have, do you have any rain to wring? it must be rain, rain-soaked, rain-filled – not any old wet thing I specialize in wringing rain the rain-wring is my thing so, do you have, please, do you have any rain to wring? I wrote this poem in my head Sunday getting off the [...]

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