Current Poem

Dear Andrew & Barbie, Many thanks.
Moroccan Rhassoul Mud Shampoo
For Hair Type: greasy with dry scalp!
How could you and how did you know?
A Body Shop shampoo which leaves
Moroccan grit grains in the bath
And looks like genuine sham poo.
Oh thank you, thank you, thank you both
And Happy New Hair to you too!

from: Lifelines by Duncan Forbes

II

You gave me back your frown
and the most recent responsibility you'd shirked,
along with something of your renown
for having jumped from a cage before it jerked

to a standstill, your wild rampage
shot through with silver falderals,
the speed of that falling cage
and the staidness of our canyon walls.

You gave me back lake-skies,
pulley-glitches, gully-pitches, the reflected gleams
of two tin plates and mugs in the shack,

the echoes of love sighs
and love screams
our canyon walls had already given back.

from Plan B by Paul Muldoon, with photographs by Norman McBeath.

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