– for Jane Gibian, with some trepidation
[the] OFFER: 3 cans [of] fly spray [or equivalent led more

or less straight to the] assorted videos

[Unreflexive then, she was more hate, less] Ashbery.

[The] Pregnancy test,

Hurl[ed, spun like a rune ]stone, [a compass, needling the marrow of Panhandle] Park
WA[RRA]NTED [the frail] Road bike [on screaming slopes, the sloe gin

burn: a necessary] (pref[ace to her] working condition)

[The] Plaster [rosette ripe] for mould making,

its green galaxy spreading above hers red below and coming round, she’s
[MIS]TAKEN [the fluting rods of the] old bamboo

blinds [for] St Peter’s [gate, turns back and
thinks the pr]OFFER[ed hand will hold the] Assorted shells

[she wears,] (Forest[all dis]Lodge[ment])
[D]ECEIVED: [shop]ping [while he’s in Pat]pong [she] table[s]
the OFF[END]ER[‘S traits]: half[wit, thick-]set [non-]vintage [money;

seamed like a] golf bag Darling[, not] ton[ight!]

Old Iron Frame [can never keep it] Pian[issim]o;

the neighbours gave up talking years ago.
[Still wasp-]WA[IS]TED: [she envies the] Bulky

knitting machine[s, purling quietly in the depths of their folded mantles]

please (No! [something seasick] Rocks) inside her hearing doctors

Trumpet[ing the miracles of] valve [and c]oil
[not realising until she got home that she’d] TAKEN [the] toy train

[from the burning wreck of the] Alexandria [waiting room].
WANTED: [a] garden [of co]gnom[ina]

[a fat] piggy bank

Beans for beanbag
[MIS]TAKEN: D[e]V[oi]D [spac]es [are not the same as] (empty)

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