Listing to Port

Broken bottles; stars; discarded fairy wings, half in and half out of the mud; piles of swords; brass knobs; a shaft of frozen dog piss, collected at source in Antarctica and shipped to your grotto in the freezer compartment of a serious research vessel; the Crown Jewels; the carapace of a shiny green beetle; a pair of glasses at the bottom of a river; toenails painted with glitter polish; traffic jams on a sunny day; the plastic crowns of the invading army of tiny princesses as they step out of the sea onto the land; the sea itself; a red-splotched carp seen between waterlilies; chandeliers; a level 3 trombone fire; nuclear accidents; cloth of gold; a million tiny eyes; the shattered mirrors of failed enchanters; icicles; space blankets; fleets of alien vessels; the glitter glue shelf at your local craft shop; ice castles; bullion.

Lumpy shadows, cats that have three eyes and all of them a different colour, great grey stones half-seen through the rain, serpents who have lost their hearts and will take any replacement, old woodlice, naked squirrels with long white fingers, round pebbles that take a single breath a day, orphaned songs, frostbitten swifts, things that sit in hollow logs cracking sticks, blackbirds with one white wing, the spirits of stagnant ponds, bottle imps, the lonely bees of the last light of day, those who have forgotten everything other than carving clocks, toads with a stone in their head, things that are raised from the mud, lantern-bearers, lavender-weavers, ticking whisperers, cold and lonely moles, evaporating ghosts, genial hosts who have taken off their masks, holes that skitter over the faces of trees, the holders of keys, bitter architects, lost horses from centuries past, wrong paths, the white hart turned red, charcoal-singers, stag-headed bonebags, gentlewomen all of sticks, counterwise-shades, those things that are inside-out and have no wish to be, caterwaulers, veiled chalkmen.

Mars from a distance, cherry tomatoes, embarrassed hamsters, cherries, the letter o on a red-letter day, cardinals viewed a safe distance from the Vatican, mosquito bites, ketchup splats, red m&ms, red marbles, chicken pox, miniature roses, sunburnt mice, certain pebbles, the fingerprints of those who are caught red-handed, nuclear chillies, the eyes of albino rats, kisses that are blown into a South Wind, the hats of pissed-off gnomes, pug balls, rubies, boils.

Thingies, chachachoogoos, bobbits, thingumwatsits, westworps, crappium dioxide, doodahs, nappitywitchas, blackbird babs, naraloos, blop, stuff bits, big dust, detritus, lost elephants, snorgums, watchumbangas, gadingas, bin fugitives, bumbarras, sivdongs, house bibblers, manifestations, megaquarks, thicketywatchas, gorp ongs, crumbly possessionum, mixed media hail, skakoogahs, level zero items, plorp, itomium, norgits, ultragrorp, aggregations of the absurd, refined stuffium, rattlers, glorbals, rampaging thing colonies, blurpblurp, smingonka, stuff.