20 - size matters

an empty pocket

lo(o)se change

mixing in

a gutter

previously spent

on clean water

 

Rule Britannia

for only 20p, a
copy of a queen

dwarfed by

monarch Windsor
monarch butterfly

but

in time the backwidens

the claws

harden

in time

an island grows

up from a stone.

(Notes: After working with some fantastic poets at Loughborough this year, I'm playing around with shape and other visual elements in poetry.)

14 - open wide

if I take into my mouth
all the red universe
will I
speak something perfect?

will I make
you a gift of words,
let slip between
my teeth some
holy psalm?

be honest
for a minute there
you thought I was
going to say something sexual
didn’t you?






(This week's image was sent to me by my beautiful friend Shelly, whose name is too perfect for this blog. It depicts the five minutes in which a sulcata tortoise is actually smaller than something.)