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clara quick and her
dark obsession
(Letterpress)


eliot's ghost treads
the phosphorescent snow
(Letterpress)
from owls and moths
he guards nana
(Letterpress)
lulu begone: bookworm,
gin drinker
(Letterpress)

the darlings glowed
in the violet hour
(Letterpress)
the magpie with her
dinosaurs and pearls
(Letterpress)
the night they invented baby
(Letterpress)		  
 
 

one day blanche birthed
a mad, bad bibliophile
boudicca and romola
rode white horses
dear virginia,
odalisque on the payphone
hyacinth knew the
vicious royalty of sweet decay

for green eyes, leonard and leonard
disposed of cigarettes
the picaresque adventures of
robert and shirah
the undetected moxie
of sweet marie 		 
 

bernice spoke latin with alacrity
errol wore golden slippers
in the sentimental dark
the borrowed glamour
of jenny the pirate bride
the mauve decade
of two pale-faced josephines

liza the goose loves
oysters and plums
royal missed the quiet, mirrored
museum of childhood
shipwrecked, black-eyed
the vivians prowled jamaica 		 
 

hand in hand the bat and the
owl slipped into the wood
between the world
blond bunny and goldie,
gone to get married
monkeys made their plans
on a bench inlaid with
pearl and ruby
prune and pansy, kittens
in a pistachio dressing room

swann, once the swain
sweets edison dipped into the
magic carpet cocktail cabinet 		   
   

coral and her imaginary
brother, sweet pea
october and tilda flew in
on paper napkin aeroplanes
rupert, the shy retirer, ate
chestnuts and violet crumbles
seven gentlemen wore trembling
wings from cairo

from sweet mama stringbean's
broken brass saxaphone
he aesthetes gulped down glittering champagne		    
   

auberon stole
the golden moon
delilah sings the blues
grenouille, vanquished!
henrietta james,
sunken treasure

sophie and
daily alice drinkwater
the little stowaway charlotte
titania will kiss
thy fair, large ears
uriah, heaped

clementine's
favorite record
henry and gertrude
criminal lovers
in love, thaddeus and
emily ellerbee
maxwell, viola, and their coterie

oh henry
pearl says: it's
only a paper moon
poe and samuel
dance the charleston
the tatty family promenades

clyde and matilda take tea
daphne swooning in her garden
good morning sweet pickwick
honouring valentine

imogen dahl takes flight
maybelle, chanteuse
tallulah to the sea, the sea
there goes starry-eyed stella

adam slung his shining guitar from gold lamé
coco lived a disco
jacobean fairy tale
honey strums a creaky tune
for hannah and gilda
lou and cleo, under the
roofs of paris

press your space face
close to mine, love
ruby knew the mild, wild luminosity
of deep december
sebastian curled up
in a seashell
the wicked enchantment
of valentino blake

ada's faded revolutionaries
all in gleaming furs
baby kohled her eyes in
a car cleopatra
for louise moon,
fragile as fingernails
in a darkened library
tuesday woke

waltzing matilda
at the cafe lovely
smitten, bitten by
dragonfly's coctail
they lay moon faced, deep in
clover for lily the liar
violet the libertine

a madcap, punch drunk ballad
for aubrey and oscar

All work ©2009 Leigh Batnick

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