Michael Small: Selected Poems

                        scraggy white tufts and shocks of matted pleats                         shanks woolly wisped, plume lime-streaked                         baby-pink patches strawberry-scratched                         usually wound-stippled, unevenly patched                           gainst back-biting pug or treacherous tom                ...

                                                   Like calcified roots of ancient trees on The Crags                         Old love is a confetti of Baci messages shredded                         A ring of turquoise opals with snag-toothed edges                         Your deframed photo in snippets frigidly fragged                ...