Closer than a dog

Closer than a dog 

Wetter than a friend 

You are not a jammy doctor 

You are not a closet ham

Colder than a german measle

Bosser than a hologram 

More than a mocker 

Purer than a fool 

You can’t sew me 

Badge of fealty

But you pluck me 

With your needle 

I don’t love you 

Like a strumpet

I just like your 

Gracious caution 

And your curls 

Of limpid sentiment 

Yes you read it 

Backwards Peregrine 

Like a palindrome

Of grommets 

Splay your pout 

Tendentious sonnet 

Wardrobe calker

Can of manners 

Don’t you wanna 

Thrash and mangle

All the habits 

Of delusion 

Don’t you wanna 

Get entangled

In the madness 

Of collusion 

Swallow swallow pick a daisy 

Spin it back 

To god and dance 

You are more than spit and feathers 

Kiss your joy and 

Fly perchance 

Please you bleed me 

Vast expanse.

2019.