Month: March 2023

Hermione

FLAIR for study, for depth of thought, yet frail to fear.
EVOKEs question, how will you age, will you thrive?
OTTER: clever, bold, and playful. Will the
WRIST that swishes spells also grow into an otter’s paw?

Decibels

MURAL (I mean Muriel) lies snoring on the
COUCH. That proboscis provides a symphonic
ORGAN recital, all stops out. So loud is the level that
it’S HEARing-impaired registration only.  

Sheep Shear

SHEAR of sheep, in the Australian Outback, hot day.
ORGAN of sight: my imagination, sifting alternate lives:
MURAL of scene rises vividly to the mind’s eye.
COUCH traveler, free to roam,
while his hair grows long and his body too unfit for a sheep shear.

Jungle Politics

SHEAR Khan, machine boss, is

ORGAN of machiavellian ward politics.

MURAL depicting his many victims

COUCHes neighborhood’s sketchiness in gentrifying aesthetic.

Jump Scare

ORGAN ominously plays Toccata and Fugue in the background––
COUCH-bound and entranced by the horrors lurking, obvious and unnoticed as a
MURAL that’s become nothing more than graffiti. Then the screams
SHEAR through the glass dividing there and here.