The Spoonbill Generator ArchiveA Golden Treasury of Collaborative Verse, 1996–2007 | |
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Poems completed in 1998 | |||
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January | |||
1998 Jan 1 | Narrow Trousers in Pimlico | When the wallet of the wealthy with fivers stiff is stuffed | |
*** | 1998 Jan 4 | The Throat Effect | Gorgonzola partridge |
1998 Jan 5 | Half-wits in Paradise | I've heard it said that Hell is other people | |
1998 Jan 13 | Other Shark-Infested Pillows | Seven cubed plus fourteen squared | |
1998 Jan 20 | Soup Training - Who Cares? | Happy New Year to the burghers of Strood! | |
1998 Jan 21 | Maybe Mercury Speaks | Scared of every footfall | |
1998 Jan 23 | For Tadpole Perkins | 'Don't carry the coal to the amethyst pool, | |
1998 Jan 27 | Night's Temporary Wrists | Carefully, she folds the fish | |
1998 Jan 30 | Music, Unless... | While I was walking my dog on the moon | |
1998 Jan 30 | Conical Catharsis | A parent who neglects the tasks | |
1998 Jan 31 | My Soothsayer's Impeachment | Emblems of the regal scorn | |
February | |||
1998 Feb 4 | An Idyllic Situation Ruined By Reed-Buntings | The best man is a tidy one, | |
1998 Feb 8 | Armpit Discipline | Ice carved by cold hearts, | |
1998 Feb 9 | The Moon Promises My Friend an Apricot | Bind me to a broken bench | |
1998 Feb 10 | Thoughts of Poseidon's Daughter | Edgily, along the pier | |
1998 Feb 10 | Type-cast Treachery | How undone as would be seen to show | |
1998 Feb 15 | The swarthy Wellington-boot | When nights draw in, and pubs resound with tales of Arthur's deeds | |
1998 Feb 17 | Borrowing Twilight | Come, Luggage! There's a curious world I'm longing to explore | |
1998 Feb 18 | Unwholesome Lodgings | The opera-house, from half-past one | |
1998 Feb 19 | One Last Lobster Seeking Re-election | Ride onwards, lads, a new-born day | |
1998 Feb 24 | Ancestral vestiges of tambourine | Show me not your golden purse, | |
1998 Feb 24 | WHat Further Unsightly Turbulence Awaits Below? | Carmelites! Before we know | |
1998 Feb 26 | Gossamer Binary Cheesburger | Perhaps it was something I said, | |
1998 Feb 26 | If Shadows Could Jest | Why is it so dark in the middle of this life? | |
March | |||
1998 Mar 2 | All Aboard, Airhead! | Wide eyed and innocent, she | |
1998 Mar 2 | Jesus pondering a delightful catachresis | Beneath the tea tree sits the gnome, | |
1998 Mar 8 | Whether Lewinsky Swore (Wittgenstein's Homily) | The unblessed stranger twisted forth, | |
1998 Mar 9 | No Parsley for Matilda's Fruitcake | By chance, are you going my way? | |
1998 Mar 11 | Nabobs and Frumps | OH! FEY! Cried the winged eel fingerling, | |
1998 Mar 13 | Arnold, Waiting | Surely Godot should be here by now, | |
1998 Mar 15 | Caramel Cribbage-Board | Keeping pace on cobbled lanes, | |
1998 Mar 16 | Z's Bequest (The Gamut) | 'A' was an Arctic Abacus | |
1998 Mar 17 | Only Ingrid Soothes This Eyeball | Your cobwebs (your cosmetics) | |
1998 Mar 17 | Nocturne by Insectlike Co-authors | Timely teal creeps | |
1998 Mar 18 | Homer, Art Thou Heat and Lightness? | Before the dawn, the darkest hour | |
*** | 1998 Mar 20 | Whiskers of Anonymity | Keep your vigil - face the facts |
1998 Mar 21 | Zimmerman's Sour Grapes | My lamp-post charm, my seventh life | |
1998 Mar 22 | Prayer Wheel Poker | Carpenter's, my only hope, | |
1998 Mar 23 | Buns | Andante, my love, for we've hours a-plenty | |
1998 Mar 31 | Witness My Self-important Bitumen | When syrup happens to congeal | |
1998 Mar 31 | Beyond Homespun | 'It is with most intense regret | |
April | |||
1998 Apr 3 | Reduplications over | This confirms | |
1998 Apr 19 | From Underneath Diana's Toast | Its stuns me, like it stuns us all | |
1998 Apr 24 | Alice's Adventures in the Improbability Pie | Alice threw the looking-glass | |
May | |||
1998 May 2 | Inexpensive Shakespearian Blancmange | For Macbeth it were done quickly, | |
1998 May 2 | Kate's Gruttock Impaler | In times of stress I like to scratch my foot | |
1998 May 2 | Once We Devoured Magma | At last I have the chance to spread my wings and versify | |
1998 May 2 | The "Don't Bother Me" Paradox | She came at dawn and slit my throat | |
1998 May 4 | Majestically Behavioral | The bilious fishwife was covered in stew, | |
1998 May 9 | Benedict the Monstrous Toadstool | Behind each King or potentate | |
1998 May 14 | Frugal the Frog | Behold the frugal cactus | |
1998 May 17 | Putresco's Wondering | Cartwheels begone! From shattered climes | |
*** | 1998 May 30 | Confusion Excuses This Apparently Plotless Fiasco | The night this narrative began |
June | |||
1998 Jun 1 | Raskolnikov's Fallen | If night should fall before the deed is done | |
1998 Jun 3 | Nine Beatles Glimpsing Salvation | There was, perhaps, a waving arm, | |
1998 Jun 7 | Marching with Redemption Balloons | Like spoons they lie, a front to back, | |
1998 Jun 7 | The mystified Walrus construction | Unpredictable grammar, | |
1998 Jun 8 | Sausages in Strangeness | A man in blackface wandered into the hall | |
1998 Jun 10 | One Daren't Expect More | The night we rode, the path we trod, we knew how it would end | |
1998 Jun 21 | Protracted, Dreamlike, Hermetic, Peculiar, Helpless | It may have been a Tuesday - the bus was late again | |
1998 Jun 23 | Scouting for Mice | Stupidity, my carapace | |
1998 Jun 30 | Bedazzled by Our Daphne's Pebbledash | Flying at thirty-eight times the speed of sound | |
1998 Jun 30 | My funicular cutlets, redeemed | The Green Joy made the Queen wet with dew | |
July | |||
1998 Jul 4 | Cheeseboard Dusk | The Books of Heaven opened, the pages to their destinations flying! | |
*** | 1998 Jul 20 | At First Simply Guessing | There was a young lady fron Dar-es-Salaam |
1998 Jul 21 | Behind Every Grimacing Badger... | Kropotkin claimed that all he saw | |
1998 Jul 27 | Neugierig, oder? | der Reim lernt eine neue Sprache | |
August | |||
1998 Aug 1 | Who Once was Orson's Vampire | Judge this breakfast lightly | |
*** | 1998 Aug 7 | Theory Comes Later | One: a sponge, of medium girth |
1998 Aug 10 | Beyond Anatomical Possibilities | If, halfway down the basement stairs, | |
1998 Aug 12 | We Build, The Planes Come | Unbroken, unending, the wine-darkened sea | |
September | |||
1998 Sep 4 | Romeo's Last Reward (Exodus) | The note bore the crest of nobility, | |
1998 Sep 19 | Epitaph for the Ninth Night Shift | A snowman, weaned on Castor Oil | |
1998 Sep 27 | Ode to the Laughter of my Pancreas | Who can fathom the rat's cunning ways? | |
1998 Sep 29 | Bliss on Cusp | He met her in a French cafe... | |
1998 Sep 30 | One-note Symphony on the Sudden Revolution | From where will the words come? | |
1998 Sep 30 | Shirley's Dancing Socks (or Ellen's) | Socks! My red socks, | |
October | |||
1998 Oct 3 | Shakespeare's apparent homily diverts the Thames ferry-men | Lay thee at my rump, thou contumelious sot | |
1998 Oct 5 | Unfamiliar Hair-brushes Gurgle | Clothing for the absent mind | |
*** | 1998 Oct 22 | Propose The Impossible | Jemima: take this catapult |
1998 Oct 24 | Caroline Rembrandt Remembered Backwards | Buckets of mud and acres of slime are all that I need | |
November | |||
1998 Nov 18 | Marrying Kine | In this ballet, cochineal | |
*** | 1998 Nov 21 | Stale Toffees Know Nothing | His feet are larger than the sea |
1998 Nov 23 | Coat-Hanger Equity | Scorn these still-born architects | |
1998 Nov 25 | Pandora's Boxing-glove | I never tire of asking | |
1998 Nov 26 | The Labyrinthine City | Canterbury? No, it does | |
December | |||
1998 Dec 1 | Outlet-valve in preparation | If spring does not come | |
1998 Dec 2 | My Bahnhof Godparent | Carve this thought upon the bark | |
1998 Dec 7 | These honeycombed faces | Marmaduke was searching for the never-ending flute | |
1998 Dec 11 | Puberty with Cheeseburger | Of course | |
1998 Dec 11 | Ambush Every Closure | What an opportunity, what a sheer delight! | |
1998 Dec 13 | One More Landscape | To renovate the galaxy | |
1998 Dec 16 | Spray-on Orkney Sweater | In the winter's brutal smile |