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Description
-1-
Disrobe calendar
Bare, uncircled dates exposed
Waiting to be filled

-2-
5 o’clock shadow
Patches of dusk gathering
Over glooming clouds

-3-
Last pinch of summer
The frustrating gift
Of a parasite

-4-
Transparent tadpoles
Racing down misted windows
Metamorphosis

-5-
Horror found amongst
Magazines on carp fishing:
‘Your Guide to Christmas’

-6-
Rugby victory
Beer sloshing for balding men
Nights of hollering

-7-
Billowing willow
Twisting, acrobatic branches
Veil lined features

-8-
Tangible blindness
Streetlights burn in dizzy lines
Synthetic fireflies

-9-
Raindrops flickering
On chewing gum concrete like
A black and white film

-10-
Traffic light trees glow
Red-topped as the Daily Star
That they will become

-11-
Cracks in eggshell dawn
The washed-out yolk, glistening,
Peers through hazy white

-12-
Solemn clouds hanging
Over balding wooded hills
Like shame-faced toupees

-13-
Broken umbrella
Oil-clad cormorant hunched
On sodden carpet

-14-
Rooftop jackdaw moot
Proud chattering echoes in
Satellite dishes

-15-
Bulging black spider
Macabre marionette
Lurks in clammy strings

-16-
Pause at roadworks sign
Fluorescent Oompa-Loompas
Croon crude catcalls

-17-
The wind’s shoulder up
Against an unbending bridge
Invisible vandal

-18-
Dots of aeroplanes
Drawing parallel lines on
The blank slate of dawn

-19-
No nicotine fix
With hazy huffs of crisp shade
Chilblains burn fingers

-20-
Amber refracted
By the outstretched outlines of
Dusk’s stained-glass window

-21-
Leaves, filthy and damp
Piled up in decaying dunes
Soil private pavements

-22-
Drowsy feet bathe in
Bracing grass, soaked in pearls of
Dew or melted frost?

-23-
A siege holds this house
Cold air storming my senses,
I battle the door

-24-
A pigeon-backed sky,
Vulgar and lacklustre, lingers
Over just-washed cars

-25-
Pines, dead and ruddy
Desperation to conform
Overcomes instincts

-26-
War memorial
Stark pinnacle rupturing
The uniformed clouds

-27-
Flamenco dancers
Tumble as the trees rustle
Like hushed castanets

-28-
Regal oak tree strides
Confident against the wind
Defiantly green

-29-
My shadow trickles
Down my back, along the road
A fleeting snail trail

-30-
Seated on the cold
Pavement, I watch hasty night
Waking neon lights

-31-
Autumn grows weary
As bed sheets hover through town;
Winter – trick or treat?

Description
-1-
Disrobe calendar
Bare, uncircled dates exposed
Waiting to be filled

-2-
5 o’clock shadow
Patches of dusk gathering
Over glooming clouds

-3-
Last pinch of summer
The frustrating gift
Of a parasite

-4-
Transparent tadpoles
Racing down misted windows
Metamorphosis

-5-
Horror found amongst
Magazines on carp fishing:
‘Your Guide to Christmas’

-6-
Rugby victory
Beer sloshing for balding men
Nights of hollering

-7-
Billowing willow
Twisting, acrobatic branches
Veil lined features

-8-
Tangible blindness
Streetlights burn in dizzy lines
Synthetic fireflies

-9-
Raindrops flickering
On chewing gum concrete like
A black and white film

-10-
Traffic light trees glow
Red-topped as the Daily Star
That they will become

-11-
Cracks in eggshell dawn
The washed-out yolk, glistening,
Peers through hazy white

-12-
Solemn clouds hanging
Over balding wooded hills
Like shame-faced toupees

-13-
Broken umbrella
Oil-clad cormorant hunched
On sodden carpet

-14-
Rooftop jackdaw moot
Proud chattering echoes in
Satellite dishes

-15-
Bulging black spider
Macabre marionette
Lurks in clammy strings

-16-
Pause at roadworks sign
Fluorescent Oompa-Loompas
Croon crude catcalls

-17-
The wind’s shoulder up
Against an unbending bridge
Invisible vandal

-18-
Dots of aeroplanes
Drawing parallel lines on
The blank slate of dawn

-19-
No nicotine fix
With hazy huffs of crisp shade
Chilblains burn fingers

-20-
Amber refracted
By the outstretched outlines of
Dusk’s stained-glass window

-21-
Leaves, filthy and damp
Piled up in decaying dunes
Soil private pavements

-22-
Drowsy feet bathe in
Bracing grass, soaked in pearls of
Dew or melted frost?

-23-
A siege holds this house
Cold air storming my senses,
I battle the door

-24-
A pigeon-backed sky,
Vulgar and lacklustre, lingers
Over just-washed cars

-25-
Pines, dead and ruddy
Desperation to conform
Overcomes instincts

-26-
War memorial
Stark pinnacle rupturing
The uniformed clouds

-27-
Flamenco dancers
Tumble as the trees rustle
Like hushed castanets

-28-
Regal oak tree strides
Confident against the wind
Defiantly green

-29-
My shadow trickles
Down my back, along the road
A fleeting snail trail

-30-
Seated on the cold
Pavement, I watch hasty night
Waking neon lights

-31-
Autumn grows weary
As bed sheets hover through town;
Winter – trick or treat?