between a rock & the deep blue sea
for s.v
between fifteen & twenty-five words at one time
between dip & caress
between ear & remote
between mock dress between despising
between the enhanced & the soupless
between the exclusive & the uncut
between Plymouth & black soda
between shadow & Stalin’s tomb
between grief & updated policy
between accident & coincidence
between emergence & occurrence
between equivalence & action (a hinge
between frogs & blue whales
between angelic scripts & the shit
between their own lives & our pocketbooks
between amor fati & amor dei intellectualis
between scarecrow & prayer
[untitled] for h.r.h
buying : cut laxation
shingle of flying jackets
sweet bells! the princely
nose “enjoys buildings
enjoys looking at them”
enemy lines envied
wads of soft incantation
lingering ives swimmers
locked in disrobbed eve
embugger the white bill
dang as five edges put it
the harsher pace of B
MR scanned all-the-way
back to gold-lit cells
turned caps in victory
energy enslav’d : TLC crusade
cokes barely fit the instant
to unwrap T
exas cutting boards
in these & several ways
relations grasp him
by the right hand paper
expiring extraterrestrial
spy compost i’ll walk
noblesse b/o : mute wade
“the exercise book was green”
for l.h.
earth a beautiful blue
clouds in the morning red
as it was a single orbit
n’est pas the tents tangl’d
rolling pins in pinked evening
excess not opposed to being
under cover of truck starkness
the trash strata baggage
claim teens temping their first
spree when control plus
zed fails EUREKA
red cedars to return things just-so
rigged tip shawls whetted want
well structure floral lens faltering
obedient sows of so-so danger
we were taught to walk
Adur Arun from sibylline shackles
flood as cold signal brawl
where there’s a till there’s
a weigh as in aureate
matter the yahoo dot co
dot UK worde package
customery brood pressure
contrast standing ceremony
Snowdon’s histrionic café
stepping out from the pyramyth
golden arches secure first sight
so steal hospital colouring
books false weekend starts
obtuse sharp-shooter jinx prize transmitter
rabbit epidemic shoo first utterance
dharma Damocles ampoule ampelopsis
solar tea dough machine-fun
office marks ex-centric drift tensity
walk a little further
an atomic line regurgitated
tax privilege sworn to
harvest blue-gray of atmospheric haze
white lilies to Lee’s windowsill
answer for Schwitters’s green blood
man utters her best man
tasting iodised salt mango St
Elmo’s fire sunspot activity green
tea-water medium AURORA
green is fluid
particles of the night serpent fire
friends pass phrases seaspent
spraying ochre buildings commanding Church
or Western Road sites complaining
exoneration green graphic count
less desires to come into day very
very dark & some
space covered by dense cumulus
home here indefinitely
& green
a degree of infinite infelicity
relief to Klein’s equal blue
stunned by live oak sunning
swimmers generic pus slow
thesis strand
haunches for slow hut
shackles cognate strata but
this is only an excuse
Run It
for j.w
Brisk between corkscrews, meat dumpling & droll
build up to irascible optics, then leave them to this
Cobalting, my rock & snatched book, oversize pearl
Cowling meant for prefect navigation &
their blouse lengths, shocks to be parsed, undernecks
then fronts as grout in the hole-in-this-wall
A wheelchair wet with choco drool, to spun-out
losing roll like vapor rents on Hogbacks high
Larger facts at the two snare drums & wily
house scarves. Nay-saying nil will outlive tarns;
floss with assenting hubby gulps, carpeted territories
tail a wide clamp & smoked hams, its gimme
darts due fashion cobalt on cobalt, thatch
censurably at handles to dependable spokes
As though the get-go was let go before the rat wife
As though flames of stumps were to crack achromatic
unremembered rides to the hash mark media kites
Arms locked across paraphernalia. Wait up, donate
A struggling whale chokes above the landing strip
Penalize a squeegee girl in the lane pit. Where,
at least. Certified-same-tissue leaves the pops well,
alone to be hummed-out soon, tuck & tuckered in
the bare racking blame awaits a hearty spool, brittle
with dew — tough on the clause of grime,
overcoats flash a lip-stiff EZ-pass. The Handy Plan
can but hound no pint-size gum by notation
16.10.03
Mark Mendoza is a British writer currently researching in Oxford, Ohio. He’s also one of the few poets I’ve met who comes from my neck of the woods. He hails from Shoreham-by-Sea, next town along from my Southwick. The poem for Lee Harwood here cites a few familiar sights and sites.
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