Music for the Highveld

 

10 Short Stories

 

Word interpretations of each of the short stories - by Paul Wheeler

1/  Parade

refinements

percolation

west side rumble

 

2/Caliban gentle torture

gridlocking hands

transgressive behaviour

the liquefaction of her clothes

 

3/Skaterly skein of

wick

witch

wicked

wise women's grace

waltsing over black ice

 

4/Rio cruise

smoking from the melting guns

touches of ivory

the bland pickpocket

 

5/Fever

feveview

under the cracked pleasure dome

for ants to see

unswallowed toad.

 

6/Mint julep

leaves into hands,

scratching his wrists,

mauve

skylighters

scrawling on mud church walls.

 

7/Chocolat

mudcaked

birds' licked wings

choristers winding

up the tributary.

Wrappers

Rosary curlew

breathing at the

silent night

 

8/Hammock

lattice welkin

earned defiance

arc en ciel.

Conerstones dripping

insatiate licking

blue and metallic

licorice

drops

Japonica jade circling

yawn dawn

 

9/Orange

Sevillian strut

Brasilian nutmeg

incensers

reedboat

 

10/ Mudpie mountain

stick insect

smouldering velvet

patriot

missile

soft

savage

(eau sauvage)

Spinal shuffle

Glad glandular

fever