Matt Fallaize
Limericks
1
The dead man, reaches
grasping fingers for a punchline
reprimands.
2
We listened to Husker Du,
I hunted for simile
hands describing a half-arc
3
Dave, thirty eight, head
half hatted half bearded, eyes
not working right.
4
A mess, to be frank the
light staggered into diptych
your party dress.
5
. . . yo-yos, they
scatter the morning
into yard-wide shards.
6
Lydia, eight, is drawing
the landscapes have breadth,
the detail is foregrounded.
7
The Maltese are a nation
well-used to conflict, their
island is steep-sided.
8
We laugh at the little things,
they grow bloated, sit fat
and sated on the bar.
9
Jo, forty-nine, growing
terrified by stages a
million miles from me.
10
You turn the fruit I lifted
from the bowl over,
as if looking for cracks
11
This weekend we’re
not going to worry,
just sleep. I love you.
12
We like the English
music, its cadences suit
our mood.
15
Sourfaced and wishing
that you’d stop tilting
quite so much.
16
How blue the tiles are,
they make the bathroom
look like a swimming pool.
17
. . . like a line, look a line
thin but bright, left
to right. Horizons.
18
Phenylalanine
19
Trompe l’oeil
20
. . . and like a trip-switch
click click click . . .
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- Lamport Court
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- Modern Poetry in Translation
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- Oasis
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- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
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- Poetry London (1951)
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- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
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- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
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