'Slip'
slip sound from lips
slip letters
slip ink across paperspill written’s
slippery space’s of sensesvery sly slivers
of silvery river spill
lispslets say tree
lets write tree
a tree swaysas wind slips through
slips around a tree’s leaves
a tree brushes skya glimpsed red brush gives
us the slip
slip from one sign to anotherslip down an icy path
slip from word to
word to word toslip towards order
or red or dis or dear
(read backwardsas wacky bards)
lets look up tree
open a slippery dictionarya woody perennial plant
slippery typically
having a single slipperystem or trunk
(stem or trunk or pole
or post or bole ... timber!)growing to a considerable
slippery height and bearing
slippery lateral branches
at some slippery distance
from a slippery ground
look up!for a moment spy
a still red squirrel up high
as stillas a kneeling reader teetering
on the lip of sleep
still for a splitsecond then
suddenly squiggling
speedily as scribblealong all a dictionary’s
slippery branches
for kernels in nutshellswill be repeatedly mislaid
in slippery ground so(w)
to grow repeatedsingle slippery stems with
slippery laterals by a same
changed slippery river
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© Mark Goodwin and Gavin Stewart 2005