Turquoise Monster

Underwater ballerina’s Twirling in the undertoe Synch and swim Tucked and trim Mermaids with legs

Insectile eyes Large and wide Stare beyond me Accusing And they are right

Veins clotting Hearts clogging Brains knotting Joints grating Eyes fading Bones decaying Prices paying

A silver streak in the night In the void she is falling Screaming super sonic But light travels faster

Coloured splats on parchment made Showed travellers adventurous ways

Pierce the night With loveless eyes Beautiful in emptiness

Ruffles, feathers, crests and crowns Beneath it all a chicken’s found But what is a chicken when it is plucked? A toothless dino – No wonder you like it dead and stuffed

Old sinew, old bone Leather wrinkled, shrink wrapped Flapping, sagging Just bags of desiccation Flesh on bones, soft as down Veins mapping Time skitters Slips past Unaware

Spider spider on the wall How very quickly you appear to crawl Legs in series spiked and barbed With fangs of poison you are armed Deadly to those tiny pray Injected, digested whilst they lay Spun in a cocoon of silk A late lunch of insect milk Spider spider on the wall What’s the eight […]

Red and white striped Flying smooth over Washed hills Pilot dreaming Of new days Peaked cap Climbs more aloft