scarecrow poetics/essays

Mono Eden

Plastic Skunk,
Comedy garden ornament.
I’ve never seen a skunk in the flesh.
I try to decide what
Other Black
and white
Creatures exist;
1.Zebra



King’s Sugar

King’s Sugar
Is bitter
To taste
Strangely
Soft
To touch
Queen’s Honey
Amber, Glass, Syrup
Sticky
Smelly
Sweet
Summer
Modern Nuns
Don’t keep bees
I know this
Because
Email exists
Praying 4u
Holy
Sista



Spores

Spores
Like the
Secret Garden
Infect you silently
Fruit Bodies
In the grass
In a ring
Kill or cure
Seeping poison
Via ostiole
Skin
Ripe
Picked
In the forests
Of Finland



£20

Underbid
Antique set
Of twin decks
In brown leather
Box
Sellotape damage
Exposes
Suede
Like dead skin
On a
Grazed knee



Diction

How to Talk Correctly
Do not speak at all
For
I do not want to listen
I can’t hear you
Nor do I want to
So I shan’t
Concede
Self-inflicted
Deafness



Little Orange Stamp

Bee Hive
And
Scythe
H
A746470
REGD TRADE MARK
Little Orange
Stamp with
Perforated edges
Cut off-centre
Showing green
Of another
Lost stamp



Child of Our Time

Wild Will
Dream-child
Little Owl
Reu
Kimba Toad
Sammy
Kevina
Cam
9 going on 19
Spooky
Rude
A right darlin’
Ritalin
ADHD
Backward
Forward



Little Old Lady Next Door Neighbour

Corporal Sherwood
Was in Singapore
Mrs Smith
In the Hotel
Raised pencilled eyebrow

Lauren McCarthy © 2006.

Lauren McCarthy currently lives in the heart of England’s Black Country, somewhere between a rock and a hard place.