“CLICK” my flashlight revealed to me
ARTSY designs where its narrow beam
SHONE up and down the wooden
PLANK now “enhanced” by an urban tagger’s prank.
Month: January 2023
Days End
MOODY is how I am feeling as this day
TAPERs and little is gained. So I will eat
CHILI (it is all that remains), then I’ll
SWILL the weeks old “Happy New Year” champagne.
Chili Thursdays
MOODY Tuesday afternoons
TAPER into Wednesday blues
CHILI Thursdays bring new life
SWILL it, red and hot, taste of the weekend
Closing
CLICK the last pen in place, eyes that
SHONE with tears drying with the signature’s ink.
PLANK and tile, carpet and shingle: coworkers in
ART, SYnonymous with love.
2023-01-11 words
PLANK, SHONE, ARTSY, CLICK
You’ve got to have a tipple or two, boy
MOODY, playing Fagin, lights the
TAPER. Fellow actors note the stench of
CHILI, reel from the pre-performance
SWILL of a beer or two too many.
Dragon’s Breath
TAPER flickering in the night air,
MOODY Welsh farmer goes out to check on
CHILI tree. Dragon’s Breath is gathering strength.
SWILL milk all you want, there will be no defusing it.
Hot Sauce Gone Wrong
TAPER the peppers lest an already
MOODY date turn irrevocably darker, just like the
CHILI, which you’ve made way too hot, a
SWILL guaranteed to ruin the evening.
Ice Storm
CHILI eaten by the light of
TAPER and flashlight assuages the
MOODY made so by the unelectric cold who
SWILL hot chocolate and dream of heat.
2023-01-10 words
TAPER, MOODY, CHILI, SWILL