FRITZ is not a common name to
UTTER, but the one-syllable zip of it is
LIGHT to the tongue, giving an extra tingle to the
AORTA.
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Flat flatting
ULTRA crisp, clean white
SHIRT – or so I dreamt. I
AWOKE to one wet, unironed – had to
VAUNT sleeping cat, snoring dog, last night’s empties, three packs of crackers, only to find the flatmate had ‘borrowed’ the iron last week.
Mood Prison
SHIRTy, angry, up the night, late to bed,
AWOKE I late as well, frail and dull,
JAUNTy for five minutes, then guise crumples to fatigue.
ULTRA, how to be, when any mood is the lord of me?
Acorn Bides Its Time
CHECK breathless absorption in the now,
ACORN takes hold, bears no fruit for 30 years,
NERDY attention compasses such a span, believes
ROUND of time enough to plant an oak perhaps.
Will Eyes Reopen
UTTER most
LIGHT blazing to eyes, last
FRITZ of spent
AORTA: will these eyes open in a new creation?
Angled pasta
PENNE is “an extruded type of pasta” best eaten in a
GLADE. It has “cylinder-shaped pieces,” which, with a
CRICK of the fork, you can flick hither and yon in a
MANLY way. “Their ends are cut at an angle.”
Centaur Chef
CRICK right through, greensward either side.
PENNE being cooked by centaur for dryad audience,
MANLY creature, healer, yet shy before no art, thus
GLADE becomes unlikeliest stage for reality food show.
The Abbot
One
STILT for the one-legged
ABBOT to balance on. One
CHAIR for the Abbot to sit on, in
MAUVE, the Abbot’s number one colour.
Unexpected Inquisition Requisition
CHAIR, plush, untortuous.
MAUVE, or red, but oh so comfy!
ABBOT would like it back, please,
STILTed way of saying: unexpected inquisition requisition.
No-longer-puppy
FETCH! I yell at my mooching dog,
BERTHa. This no-longer-puppy is ever-the-
IDLER. She saunters round in her own
ORBIT. The stick lies stuck in the mud.
