CANAL – the Panama one – cuts a water-filled
GORGE through the middle of a former
HAVEN, not only disturbing its peace, but
USURPing it.
Root Canal
Month: August 2022
Usurper has the City
USURPer has the city, rear guard flees hilltop via
GORGE under night’s protection. By dawn some will be far enough,
HAVEN reachable for the uninjured.
CANAL full of bodies a grim memory they carry with them.
Scylla and Charybdis
CANAL forms the short path home through the
GORGE, but a mythic beast and mythic storm
USURP the reign of peace over those waters, and
HAVEN becomes the last thing believed possible.
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2022-08-27 words
USURP, GORGE, HAVEN, CANAL
And it’s not even my dog…
CHAFE my fingers to the bone, weeding; lentil
STALK pokes me in the eye – bleeding. Gentle
GAUZE turned up in Wordle today. My dog’s nuzzle makes my
TRACK of solutions look like a Tetris puzzle.
Koala
CROWN of my day’s achievements: finding the weight of a
KOALA in our care. The other vets gave up, but before I took the
FERRY home, I managed to weigh the koala toddler, and not
SPANK the side of my head with frustration. Cute kid.
[One of my more odd poems…coming back to it, I’m not quite sure what I was saying, in part…]
The Die are Cast
SPANKing pace and roiling wake,
FERRY hydroplanes the Straits,
KOALAition of the archipelago assembling.
CROWN’s ambition has cast the dice for war.
Down Under
SPAN, King’s navy, from familiar seas to
KOALA and kangaroo’s homeland;
CROWN claims for itself then ships
FERRY “adventurers” down under.
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2022-08-26 words
SPANK, FERRY, KOALA, CROWN
What Now
STALK fulfillment’s dream down dusty
TRACK, winding into hollow canyons.
GAUZE of leaden sky above as I try to find myself–then
CHAFE when I do, yet nothing has changed.