OUT GO the ship needles to make their wakes a
WOVEN tapestry of incomparable blue and white.
OLIVE-colored barnacles bedeck the hulls like rhinestones;
PLANKed strakes and decking creak their froggy rhythms.
Month: October 2022
2022-10-13 words
WOVEN, OLIVE, PLANK, OUTGO
First fright
SNUCK into the movies, as a kid, only to see someone
SLAIN on screen. I
CLING to the nearest adult. Thankfully he’s more than
CIVIC about it.
Brutalism
CIVIC center, brutalist concrete slab.
SLAIN all attempt at grace or soaring flight,
CLING to what might have been, dream somehow you
SNUCK ornament or proportion into the design.
2022-10-12 words
CIVIC, SLAIN, CLING, SNUCK
Child of the Times
PAGAN efflorescence: flesh, sub-gods, to which
FAITH, until yesterday a cohering hope, now mere accessory.
TIBIA, bearing load, yet below, blind to inky canvas self spell.
ROACH, scent rising, incense of current prayer, but as smoke knitting nothing together.
2022-10-11 words
PAGAN, FAITH, TIBIA, ROACH
Dreams of Peacetime
PHASEs ripple back and forth as dream reality smoothes:
GRAND views of peaceful lands, raveled wars knit up, displaced by
WHIFF of everyday, wet leaves heaped on lawns. Appetites go benign: Say for
DONUT, something trivial to want that needs no ammunition.
Day Planner
GRAND schemes for the day greeted by a
WHIFF wafting from the bakery door; a new
PHASE of planning now entered: consuming
DONUTs until I’m miserable.
2022-10-10 words
PHASE, GRAND, WHIFF, DONUT