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cuddle-logue
contents page
from gossamer
ghostly vicarious
long to reign
as some might say
‘like men’
cumbersome!
a cloud parting
cuddle called sunshine
motiveless heavenly
nothing ventured
the first thing up and in this
wraparound
the nestle in
comes by a set of fits
soulful
what does that even mean?
no, stay in bed for a wrestle
take tongue with
what vintage was that?
too close for wrinkle
eyes anyway tight
this could be anyone’s cuddle
but the bell rings
have a heart
daylight is different
then was … by a nose
the competitive cuddle
ongoing, hard at it at times
here’s a one-time cuddle
comes on your mobile
mustn’t let anyone see
cuddle with love-beam thrown in for free
all innocence
this little chap
leapt in the midst of sibling making
most natural thing in the world
much touch
that’s us
and here we are
now where were we?
in media res
mysterious cuddle set to certain chords
itself melodic, swells
a cadence comes
the titles run
lay back, job’s done
and just when you think you can think
the blue bolt cuddle from out of nowhere!
takes you short by way of the curlies
out of your socks at least
possibly lost footing
go to pieces because of …
you’re cooked!
they never come but single spies
on a dance floor
one cuddle leads to legions
and fey, away, uncanny cuddle
made later myth
told down through the tree
as ape to plain come bounding
now grandfatherly
but all good things
to a pretty pass
and gather here
the COVID cuddle could be your last
kind cuddle of the after loss
solicitous, perhaps, or calculating, crafty
consider the legally binding cuddle
clerk drafted
from which a handshake quakes
the cuddle as agreed
indeterminate? curious?
fresh? generic? rote?
blues cuddle? jazz it!
or our own invention?
make it up as we go?
no, stay
hello this is love and mean it
we’re paving a path to hell
fire up the close encounter
a twisting turning devious clench
sly deceiving meant something quite other
the cuddle of the beast
the deadly business of the bear
and done on the picnic rug
then calm, collect ourselves
home pure, no grope ulterior
though light breast brush
tip touch at times
you choose
the bottom line leads fresh kisses
and end up where?
with the lowest commonly denominated cuddle
one that lasts the whole year
one that comes in seasons
cuddle with endearments
lewd concupiscent cuddle
make my bliss
they’re off again
out of the barriers
it’s the human race!
Aristophanic cartwheel
and horizontal dance upright
a balancing act on the high wire
under the big top
premeditated cuddle
set to entertain
the one that led to the wedding
a dynasty else a tribe
there is the group or cluster cuddle
the flag wrapped national football hug
or change room scrum meant nothing
we’re married
the cuddle of truth
and the other kind
the cuddle of the melt-down
nothing left in love’s tank
then there’s the final
the custody cuddle
court ordered
the cuddle of the eggshells trod
how come to this?
the cuddle of the settlement
each far and so alone
hurt
the broken
the irreparable cuddle
each her his part
a casual comedy
commonplace
tentative from first date on line
the fists found later
sadly sometimes love’s too blind
let’s not go there
let’s laugh it up with life goes on
tell me … whisper, touching
a toddler run and leap
on for old, for young
the cuddle consisting of all well wishes
a kind of illumination
you can work all hours by this
sovereign remedy for winter
you won’t need a
do not disturb sign
all can see
and yet we’re where they won’t
confound the clock
try this at home
here’s the cuddle we keep on the shelf
and here’s one, just in case
it’s on my footer where away
a kind of cone of silence
and there’s the distant cousin kind
airpeck and no favours asked
and more
never run out!
warehouses full!
a cuddle off the rack
or here’s the full on
and this from far
of parting then again here’s the rejoinder
the conversational cuddle
perfectly equal
as if one turn
wheesht of where we are
or in unconscious night
as together dreamt
by accidental illustration
cuddle analogous with clinch?
no, cuddle is metonymy
it’s all beside yourself
no matter if misunderstood
come hither …
you’re already here
armed and in the between of done and still to do
make pause for it
and on the days when there are none
please take one
consider yourself in the cuddle
in the poem in a song
receive it as a place and purpose…
receive and so you’ll give
first last
the one for you is one for me
don’t worry
it’s where we won’t be missed
where the we are now wordlessly gone
in all the tricks of whimsy
this breath together bliss
a rhythm as with
each equally priceless and each set free
how shall we picture this?
