LOWLY member of the medical corps
SWORE loudly when an officer called him
CHAFF and ordered him to scarper for the
PAPER, that truly, he only wanted on a whim.
Month: September 2022
Commitment
CHAFF promised, tumbleweed
SWORE: both esteemed to be
LOWLY, but neither willing to commit to
PAPER and ink.
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2022-09-10 words
CLUMP, POUND, AISLE, WINCH
Here doesn’t come the bride
POUNDing out the miles/kilometres, I hit a
CLUMP in the road, bump both knees more than a bit and need a
WINCH to pick me up and place me in the ambulance. Now, instead of walking down the
AISLE I’ll be in a state of somnambulance.
Over the Last Fence
CLUMPs of dirt! Call this a yard?
POUND is barren patch,: narrow kennels, narrow
AISLEs. A twitchy border collie is evolving, starting to invent:
WINCH to get everybody over the last fence and outta here.
Might he Forgive
CHAFF into the troughs–he’d be happy to have a portion.
LOWLY station, it was always his, but he was proud, blind to self,
SWORE to make his own way, live by his own lights.
PAPER scraps are a welcome find: time to write his father. Might he forgive?
Aisle
CLUMPs of hills form a natural
AISLE, Earth’s own processional path
POUNDed by rock and rain, its call a
WINCH to pull the heart to itself.
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2022-09-09 words
CHAFF, LOWLY, SWORE, PAPER
Thief of Self
DEVIL has no horns,
MURAL won’t hold his image. Only fallen boundaries show his presence.
SNEAK thief brags he got away, yet devil shadowed; more than property went missing.
LEGGY burlesque dancer can’t recall the moment devil misstated her worth.
Mural
MURAL of temptation as expected–
LEGGY seductresses in red dresses,
DEVILs with horns and forks–while the real things
SNEAK by unnoticed in the background.
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