SUAVE, jaunty, debonair? Or,
PASTY, uncertain, jumbled? Some
BYLAW of fate may contain the pronouncement.
BLINK, though, and whichever it is, you’ll have missed it: we are vapor.
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Bad Jump
HARSH, black space—survey craft appears from jump.
SHORT peace, then crew alarms, sensors blare.
KAPPA may be constant, but tensor here shows local space evilly curved,
SOBERest of questions: far enough from black hole to claw away?
Hopes rising
HARSH winter gales, but now sighting refuge of huts,
LADEN from successful hunt, they
SLYLY calculate the changed
RATIO: hope rising with full bellies, fears declining as hunger recedes.
Slipping Bonds
SURLY bonds of earth to slip, not by travel, rather to transcend,
TOUCH beyond small space, short time, escape prison of
SORRY human state–yes, its bursts of beauty, yet then
WREAKing vaster ills. Faith, cling as mover moves!
Base Ethos
SEIZE what you desire!
A BASE of followers underwrites
ETHOS. Surely, what the crowd wants is
VALID?
Comparative Zoology
SHEEP, not over smart, needing watch,
HERON, poised to strike, self-assured,
PLACES different, one tended, the other wild.
DANDY doesn’t see self in either—and we haven’t mentioned the peacock.
Two Births
BASIN of myrrh for Pharaoh’s child,
BAWDY celebration of succession.
REEDY hiding place, by contrast: a basket.
VIGIL from the bank, every breath the celebration here.
Goddess
TABBY thinks herself goddess of the apartment,
SIXTY strides through all the rooms,
NORTH wall cool in summer,
NERVES of all must be tempered, she does not like a fuss.
Note: a day late (these were the 12/29 words), due to a diverting little winter cold or flu.
Known Unknowns
PRISM in natural philosopher’s study casts spectrum,
GAUDY bauble to some, yet to reason’s probing, revelation.
CRAFT of thinking builds on known, ventures farther, unknots tangled mysteries.
SCORN for philosopher or priest will arise in time, harder unknowns left behind, assumed as understood.
Wonders All
TORUS, form from geometers dream,
VIPER, slithers by, calls for caution,
VALVE, engineered to govern flow,
VAUNT shape! Vaunt creature! Vaunt invention! Wonders all.