Clincher and others

Duncan Jones leads off our national poetry day things with poems for the not so faint-hearted

by Duncan Jones,
first published: October, 2020

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Clincher

Baby bird rasps from the oak tree by the painted shed

A sky is folded up to near ink blue

Nettled palms keep skew whiff time

By the pines three tones ascending one two three

Whatever you tell yourself is untrue

Dead mirror

See thru ball rests

on the solid water

Flesh mass jogging

Ardour armour over

One lump hammer

Hanging from a tree

From Route Traces

Hail, Holy Queen!

The C in CUNT

Looks as if

Writ in sleep.

In Monday crawl

Air is thick and sour.

Maybe a hand slipt.

Duncan Jones

Duncan has lived and worked in Birmingham for over forty years. He does things with words and pictures.
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