Magpie, Ali and Lounge Lions


Upstairs at Duroc, Issue 9, 2007-2008
Two poems: Magpie and Ali and a collage: Lounge Lions to illustrate Jeremy Dodds' 'Lions of the Work Week' poem.

Magpie

Come shake your fist farmer think about your cage
and he who all lost summer from floor to perch
hopped, feathers raggedly on the chicken wire.

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Ali

Ali was leaning so far back on the ropes
he looked like a man with a job to do on the ceiling.