Month: December 2022

Familial Heridatement

MERCY is not the familial heridatement, she thought;
POPPY won’t appreciate his totaled Jag. He’ll be . . .
TESTY, choleric, dyspepetic-so not overjoyed, thought she
DRYLY, took deep breath, squared shoulders and stepped into the library.

ouch!

HURRY! I said in a
NASAL whisper as we
CREPT along. Then my toenail caught on the
PRONG of a fork fallen in their flight.

The Man Inside

NASAL toned, ‘state your business, peasant’, guard braced decoy while
CREPT I past in shadows, alert to every pebble, unbreathing, praying, first
PRONG in assault on city, the man inside.
HURRY then and main chance seized–the kingdom fell.

And so it goes

SNOWY outside; the wild wind blows, the
OCTET practices for its next shows. The wind
EMBUEs their sound with aural glows; the
GROUP consists of eight banjos.

Jadis, Off By One

SNOWY gloom deepens, cold grips harder:
IMBUE, Jadis of icy gaze, space and time as you may, with
OCTET of spells, deadly, always one away from perfect.
GROUPs are under your sway, but One is unfazed.

Twice Hitched

HITCHcock, the director, with suspense in mind,
SLYLY inveigled his main characters
ALOFT the Statue of Liberty. One would pay the
PRICE of his misdeeds in a splattering fall.

On the other hand…
James Stewart, in HITCH’s
film, Vertigo, also found himself ALOFT,
fell, and paid the PRICE
in madness, deluded by a SLYLY murderous couple.     

Mind Takes Flight

ALOFT, if balloonist can get them there, thoughts of
PRICE drop away, dropped anxiety anchors holding the mind from flight.
SLYLY, he offers short flights for less: once
HITCH is untied, wonder takes over and wants to remain: aloft.