Interview with a catafalque
A music journalist interviews a Rose, a music creator, about the true meaning of a new music mode which he discovers isn’t what he thinks.
word-play
Falstaffian!
Falstaffian – a poem. Not ordinary, workaday, pedestrian, quotidian, But roaring, exceptional, gargantuan, Falstaffian!
The Wordsmiths will Articulate Today
There’s a hubbub in the town
and the story’s going round
that the wordsmiths will articulate today.
Prodigious
The creatures of the world debated which of them had most right to the title Prodigious.
The Squamous Dermisaurus
Comic poem featuring imaginary dinosaurs written in response to “Epidermis” as Word of the Day on the Artwiculate word-game. Illustration made in Photoshop.
Capt. Gulliver’s Voyage to Borborygmus
Chapter headings from a previously unpublished story of the adventures of Gulliver’s Voyage to Borborygmus by Jonathan Swift. Or possibly not.
He Wishes for a Sinecure
Poem playing with the word sinecure meaning: A position that requires no work but still gives an ample payment.
Not Quite Procol
A re-write of the lyrics of “A Whiter Shade of Pale” using words from the Artwiculate word game.
The Epiphany of St Callous of Acrimony
Epiphany was the word of the day on Artwiculate – three days before the Epiphany of January 2011. As good an excuse as any for further fantasies woven about the personality of St Callous of Acrimony.