Hump-back
POESIEHump-back in a huff and a puff you loll
bask in the waves sighing, pitching your tail
curling to hide some bad mood as you roll
over surface so still you tip, slide and sail…
I live in my father’s garden celebrate our conversations summer lighting up the roses pink carnations spreading scents and
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Master mountain sighs his enormity weeps in small gullies at the weight he holds, despairs of immensity, too big to
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You never would imagine he could close up like that, like an oyster, wrinkled mouth sealed shut contours of hermetic
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He flies in ribbons like my hair undone
loosely in this arctic breeze
like a kite in the wind his long tail trailing
above melting icefloe, along costal freeze
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Like a queen’s downy bed fluffed up for the loving featherlace wings drifting aloft they glide with the wind two
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He hangs out his wings to dry
soggy his dive
lazy on lava he loiters, waits
for whatever flounder dare wander
in harbour waters
beneath his razor-sharp rock.
Hungry, daggerbeak hook-tipped
aloof
quick wing-tuck, neck-stretch
so sudden the plunge to survive.
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Cup in hand I take my tea at midnight down a darkening track lush chestnut oak and elm hang heavy
It’s the call over still water echoing round the bay of my mind some yearning, undefined A loon owns this
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This crack in your iceflesh thawing like a crease in the mouth of your womb you are melting in sighs
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