LAST SUMMER TRIO

1.

birds bleep 
update alerts

sounds like that anyway
to
my
zoned-off
half-mind
on-the-nod
stretched 
out
on
the
patio
recliner
eyes shut and everything is blue


2.

uncooked oven fry

a single yellow chip
who tumbled
into accidental segregation

speaks
more
than
words
from the 
dusk light 
kitchen floor


3.

grateful for the garden

tucked pocket of english green

mad sprouts
and
knowing bark
is
fairy-tale impossible and mountain dignified
under
wi-fi 
skies

from smartrestaurants.co.uk

SICK NOTE MORNING

the day pulls itself together
like 
a 
monster up on its hind legs
for the first time

it
disguises itself 
  as
  an
  emergency
  and
  gets
  irritably ignored

but
the cats claws on my eyelids
force
my
meat pile and delicate skeleton 
into 
the 
kitchen cold
  where
  i
  watch
  him eat 
  on
  his simple kitchen floor world

  i 
  ponder breakfast
  but
  shower
  instead
  and 
wash the nights clinging anxiety
  
  away

  again

from listverse.com - The Canvey Island Monster