The Consonants

John Tranter

B, brave brown, C, icicle

Pendant, D, dun though pale,

F for faint mauve, fish and bicycle,

G, gothic paint in a green pail

H, an ambulance red and white,

J, lemon rain, K, snakebite,

L, bandage around M for kill,

N, no concrete freeway crush thrill,

P, torrid personals, Q for Quimper,

R, pale reptile, Sun and beach

And T-shirts, V, abrasive screech

Where a red vixen might scamper.

X is just black, Y mottled spoon,

Z pale grey sleeping under the moon.