Lying in Wait

KNOLL. Lying in the shrubs, waiting,
STEELing for steal to go down, once
GLOOM has deepened to thwart watching eyes.
FELON to be? Yes. What they have on him outweighs.

Shifting the odd bison

A
SAINT who makes practical his SPORT
by
USING his strength to shift the odd BISON,
finds it
HEFTY a task, and lengthy a QUOTA –
Sees it
DEBIT his pay packet, like decimal to OCTAL.

[Catching up from the weekend…or two for the price of one]

Octal Census

OCTAL system devised by pinkie-less scribes cataloging
SAINTs. There are 100, also 64. which puts
HEFTY hit on the old cortex-you feel thickheaded like a
BISON first time you hear it, hardly stopping to wonder why the saint count is so, um, small.

Sport Mad

DEBIT required of treasury of merit (if it existed):
SPORT mad parents, with this much effort could teach children the world, yet
QUOTA of trophies and camps and wins is never full,
USING up themselves and family in hectic chase.