Hey Mister
Early one morning,
Christmas wrap lying torn
as Mr Tambourine Man bores,
hardens to '101 Things To Do Before You Die'
declaring 101 - extending the gene pool - complete,
Dr Who theme tune wavs upstairs.
Botticelli curves roll close as warm sheets,
Chronicles of the Big Apple
slip easy into Narnia's recording studio.
Dylan, familiar as Dougal,
Magic Roundabout and Be Ro Flour,
breathes fast and furious
to a mouth organ's delirium.
Rolled out as pastry:
sausage rolls, mince pies,
an apple pie bed.
Tambourine thwaks and thrums
jangling and jingling bells, like Santa's sleigh
in a rush of slush,
Jack Frost slinking away
leaving no carrot in the snow
. . . as Mr Clause snores on.
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magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The