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Petroc Trelawny


'll often talk an awful lot about Tahini

wants to mate with as many females as he can

judges a male’s worthiness by the SOUNDS he makes.


Rock-like clouds appear

to gather in the grasslands of Wyoming.

No wind & not much rain.


This is the moment he has been working towards:

he has decorated his parlour with deer dung and charcoal

but hasn’t counted on all this sprouting fungus.


He cannot merge love with life and arranging

all the reptiles and go out the snow red flowers and beetle elytra.




Dropped off.

Astonishing fall of the glass.