Showing posts with label cat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cat. Show all posts

Thursday, 9 April 2026

BAD NEWS ANTIDOTE - SMALL TOWN FLUFF #4




due to the unprevented
preventable dooms
i present again here
a kind of antidote
i call small town fluff

~

the cat hides again
behind the bedroom curtain again
from the men working
over the road 
on the rooves 

i tell him he is safe
& that the men are only
involved in essential maintenance
of exactly the kind of structure
he sleeps in safe & warm

he looks at me with disappointment
& good lord man i say
i am doing the best i can

& i get him
spray can cream
on our very best saucer

& the suns out
& its spring
& it all looks kinda twee out there
& its lunch time very soon








Thursday, 19 February 2026

LUDDITE





i am one 
unsupported proprietary tech away

from going
full luddite

& sleeping outside
in the cats places

& showering 
only if it rains

& roasting plundered veg
over deadfall timber

in a place amazon vans
could & would 
never ever 
come









Wednesday, 11 February 2026

NO LONGER A WINTER BOY





long winter 
of 
morning baths &

early lunches & 
the cat sleeping  

just where i want to 
stretch out next 

~ 

a derelict bridge halfway 
over give or take

wooden handrail cratered 
by cigarettes &

the black water is 
moving but only just 

~ 

i am suit tense but 
pyjama wasted & 

waiting on the blossom & 
breeze to make the air 

air again as i am no 
longer a winter boy









Tuesday, 25 March 2025

RAW LIKE BACON




i
bathed
in
the triumph
of a cat

exfoliated with sand from the sky

& raw like bacon like headlines
i took to the sleeping bed

& failed there
with
mountain tension
missing the streams of leigh 











Tuesday, 8 October 2024

MORNING IN THE GARDEN HAIKU x 2




shadows on the fence

& 
one hundred shades of green

hot bowels 
waking

~

birds whistle & quip

the cat explores the clover

coffee 
stokes it all








Wednesday, 4 September 2024

SPEAKERS BLIM




never
knowing
how long it will take
for my mind to get 
online 
again

i wait wait wait
in the sunday morning of it all

coffee & a folded cat

1993 out the speakers blim








Monday, 29 July 2024

NIGHT WATER POOLS




in the morning
the coffee is there
& then the garden is there

night water is pooling
on the all-weather chairs

& the cat
hes glowing godlike
on a sun drenched bench

~

& the birds all call out
from their soft cloisters
of greens & teal & red & blooms

& the shadows 
of the leaves 
& the spaces between
are painted in 
just right







Thursday, 30 May 2024

IN THE SKYS GREAT BOWL





the cats rolling onto his back
legs hanging / eyes watching

showing the trap of claws & teeth
baited by thick soft belly fur

of course i fall for it

~

its midnight 
& the lawn is wet
stars out in the skys great bowl

& the solar storms flares  
show up as nothing here

but i stay awhile / hoping 
they might / even invisible

be rewiring my brain









Thursday, 23 May 2024

GARDEN HOGAKU




time is measured in pets
&
tower fans
&
discount thermals
&
lengthening children

& in the stolen propagule
thats a fir tree now

& theres a strange cat up there
in a nest of dead needles

waiting on birds
& dreaming








Tuesday, 23 April 2024

SO PORTABLE




plans dashed
by the cat 
asleep in the chair

as comfortable
as if
he took his bones out

so portable
but immoral
to disturb





Friday, 29 March 2024

FRESH BAKED CRUMBS




was feeling
well 
grim
about it all

till the sun came out
like spilled yellow paint 

& my wife came home
with fresh bread

we ate on the bedspread
by the sleeping cat

miniature snores
& impossible fur

flaked with fresh baked crumbs









Sunday, 31 December 2023

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS ETC PT 1




not all films will be shitty

sleep properly
  like a person

become iron man

global justice

paint roses

neighbourhood patrols

do as the cat does

increase citizens arrest record

build a sofa









Tuesday, 15 August 2023

CREATES AN ILLUSION




a boxfresh outfit
or as boxfresh as i get
helps clear out
the fog upstairs
& creates an illusion
of order & prep & pep

until the cat
gets hungry
& gets friendly
& rubs his shedding summer coat
all over my twill wale
& puma suede

no matter
i am only sitting in the morning chair
sunlit on the houseplants
& hair everywhere









Monday, 22 May 2023

MONDAY MONDAY




we watch the 
binmen

me & the 
cat

him with suspicion 
& fading alarm

me with old-man 
relief











Monday, 3 April 2023

NURSERY RHYME FRAG




the cat ran away
from the window cleaners

& i crushed up pills
with a spoon

thieves drove off
with next doors car

under a dirty pearl moon





Wednesday, 10 August 2022

GARDEN REPORT BLAND VICTORY




& over the back fence
is a deep & wild un-mowed lawn
grown up around the swings & toys

i am reminded of apocalypse films

it looks like jaywick sands

~

our cats in there
hes looking up at me
his eyes say -

you got nothing better than this


only your food
i say
only your food 

it is a bland victory








Friday, 10 December 2021

PREP THE GREEN SCREEN SCREAM

 


   the
   cat

his shadows 

are like almost cgi

& such hi-res is migraine alert

encrypted 
upload 
incoming 

prep the green screen scream


~


the kaleidoscope vice 
the icy panorama 

i can smell cabbage / weed / sulphur

theres a truth in migraine
revelation in the glitches

somewhere

yes
 







photo - i can see you seeing me






Thursday, 9 December 2021

FIRE PITS CRACKED TUMBLE




when afternoon touches evening
four fox cubs play rough & fleet
on our lawn & chairs

& still as a post behind the fir trunk
one parent watches
blended in shadow & brown 

& as the dusk crowds the skys vignette 

she returns to bury 
the food our cat rejected

in
our
fire
pits
cracked tumble

& in the wild wild corner 
kept abandoned
in hope
for bees