Redback Mansion extract
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Redabck Mansion, is my first collected volume of children's poems. Here's a taste.
The beach boat sailed
I'm sure it did
in the tide
when we were asleep,
it sailed out on a torch
of sealight
and went fishing
for sea monsters
and sea treasure,
that beach boat we made from sand
and shaped with our hands
it sailed in the night,
I'm sure it did.
StormThe sky has bones,
electrical legs
that hip and socket
in neon strides
faster than a rocket,
all through the grey, clotted
thickness.
The legs somersault
to a drum's percussion.
Watch the bones shatter
gulp
then rumble
with indigestion.