TWO POEMS by JAI KNIGHT
Early Bird
Naturally I’m a nightbird
but this wintery morning I’m awake before most have got up
out with mallards & watching a swan wash
along the canal
and it’s when in view of lime weeping willows
a calm comes over me
nagging infernal voices quietened
deep tissue mind massage
darting lil family of wabbits scurry back into the foliage
grey heron swooping
and birdies hopping on the path
my shipwrecked mind’s embarrassment of riches
The Prophecy Is True
Prayer Circle
Lousy
Bombast
Serviced by mouth
Assumption, your honour
Contention, major problem
Cheap booze Britain rise in Levis
Conveyed no meaning
Contraption
Tone muscles
Street walkers
Sequestered
Work load
Killer on loose
Articulate
Hell bent
Easy victims
Frozen waterfall
Falling lakes
Flame Generator
Kelp
Radar Screen
Endurance
The ‘catch’
Fragrance
Cloud fall streaks
Overture
Web of secrets
Tan lines
Flexible stone
Prize draw
Pyramid system
Shrouding the sky
“Damn near dropped a tear”
Dawn’s rats
Maggots nest
Big top
Rain-bringers
Sulphur demands/sheets of avalanche
Mermaid's hold is in her glands
Flip the bird
Voiced Concerns
Consoled
Swill horse
Cruelty farm
Fighting for the federation
Rump the bicep
Night today
And back again
Morning chip bird
Leg puller
The Entrance
Discharge
Healers Napalm
Dishonourable Vipers
Private delta meetings
I was on the top
The position Good
Carries Man
Quoted the physically detailed history a lot of weight
Confidence
Predictable foxes, as Urban trickster
Suffocating advantage
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How deep’s your hook set?
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