Mole

X

two fields off a chauffeur:

sitting sprang scrambling & gassing

Toad again & assing heedless

he sighed

     & blew

the delicate                       curve

Mole

VIII

shut off steam

sniggered off swaggering

arrogant written language, Agua em pedra dura tanto

within walls weak within walls

the debonair (flu) upspring

reels

Mole VII

.
.
.
reeds whistle
& there's
Acker Bilk
.

Mole 2 // Rat 2 // Windy Pillows

Mole II

The Mole shipped his skulls
"I'll do whatever you like, Ratty"
and gave it a squeeze.*
The Mole: a timid creature & on
The Open Road


*This is the characters' first encounter with the Poop-Poop.


Rat II

bank in the sun
no land- allowed

comfortably stern
though unconvinced

"You villains!
you highwaymen*


*I'll take you through all the Courts!

wind in the willows / moustache / willows

Yesterday we visited the Wind in the Willows exhibition in Henley's River&Rowing museum. At the moment I'm working on a sequence that bounces off WITW. Here's the first poem of what is currently the 'Mole' section:

Spring is clean is
sprung &c
& O my
Onion Sauce is leaking
O stop stop! my
Onion Sauce is leeking
with sparkle
& with the river water