This was a garden, once

Journey

Past sentient city rush
and the seemingly stained
concrete
tube
sewer tunnel
horse power
cold cough
day break

HOWL

and an old man
crawling
from the wreckage

push-powder
concave
breasted

run, run, run
and dissolving
shadow land
spectres

Pictures of a City

I have not met you

i have not met you
like some slovenly dash my head against the wall
cutting up scenes
in a dark, harsh black and white screaming
animal world

is this not howl?
cast faces to the wind
and unfold
in a rush of blood-stained
silent film

depth-charge
time bombed
explosion

that scrapes back to patina
in a frenzy of flash-danced innocent first-love world

Remember a day .....

Fifty Shades of Greyness

Dear Sheddists,

I have yet to read it nor, I suspect, will I ever - but for those of a certain age there remains a twinkle in the eye for the paramour of one's youth.  So before it's too late here's the Old Codger's dictionary guide to "Fifty Shades of Grey".

"S&M" - a dyslexic shopping trip for the terminally befuddled

"Bandage" - group restraint, as practiced principally by retired Scoutmasters

"Tartanabulation" - the erotic art of geriatric sub-blanket frottage

"Frottage" - the steamy head on a skinny mug of Ovaltine

"Premature ejaculation" - an unseemly incident during a lawn bowls match involving the unintended early release of the white marker-ball

"Gummylingus" - removal of false teeth prior to oral sex

"Oral sex" - talk of coital activity, before sadly losing the plot

"Dildo" - masturbationary object of pleasure for the mature lady

"Dido" - masturbationary object of pleasure for the mature man

"Aphrodisiac" - chronic condition affecting ladies of a certain age whose heads are set in a spin by thoughts of the late Jimi Hendrix

Happy reading ... that is, if you can find your glasses!

Sewn