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The Wood Hover (a parody of GM Hopkins)


by Iain James Robb


My trousers turn when her these eyesights earn is learned in light,

Like limn of laugh or limbs hers — do I know her, no? — but gauzy

Greyhair ravings greyscale havens of Old Jake whose floozy

Wooed, ne'er raised the wood that, pencil-perched, arrests my gait and dáresay

Drains, white rains when rousered baned when troused so tight.

Ah, such was the rush of it, all in the crush of it, you wound me, round me, ‘hind me, hound me quite,

Blear-bright, the fugue-fug, smoke-tug, clear and sheer, mid-mere the moon is, midst of might

Here, see: hear; shé — see hére — ís middle Moon's May, may she say no nosegay or a posy

Be good enough but trouser's tail some maids cause quail makes chops and cheeks of Rosie

Blush, with crush óf blood's gush, flower-flushed, at sleight of white-height night.

 

Oh God, oh, oh my word, good Lord man, can you spare a scan for this man jacent only

To the stare of her and, friend-fledged, furled with friends, she seeks a murder in the suchly

Steer, of eye, see, sigh; what a mock of it, talk of it, mouser-trousered, lonely,

I, ‘neath blunder-sky, turned tale-tell of her touch, say

The which, all lost, this ghost I guise gale-groans, quail-quivers muchly,

Gives up its ghost with gruel no Host was, ghoul-galled, good of Golly.

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