Something is Always News to Someone

 


There are attics so small 
stepping into them is like putting on a hat.

The best poems are written using words
between larva and lava, valve and vulva, volcano and vole.

Islands like an overnight rash grew on the face of the sea.

In some countries it is impolite to say “va va va voom”
in response to a poem.

Among other things bones grow in an egg.
Shadows commune with the center of the sun.
Only vinegar smells like vinegar. 

Skunks get ulcers. It takes longer to sever
the umbilical cords of infants born under bomabardment.
The faces of the dead puff like crackers in the rain.

Quiz.  Bird or plane?

tiny sky-tyrant, slam eagle, horned screamer,
fairey hamble baby, sad flycatcher, noisy pitta, delta dart,
hoary pufflegs, fighting falcon, perplexing scrubwrens  . . .

Your guess is as good as a gasp.

 

 

 

Peter Yovu
Picture Rupert Loydell

 


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