Category: ohthatwright

FIXER here to rescue fizzled scene:
CARAT upon carat of Bulgari cascade,
TOTAL makeover, glam of smoky eyes,
TUNIC cut low, cut high. Sizzle sells.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MINTY or cinnamon gum? The only diversion while
BUSED through the city on ride so slow the paint
DRIED many time over. Bus riders persevere, aren’t
AGILE; they know time shapes them, not the reverse.

HOLLY boughs–chance sight as I flee, and slop through
MARSH. Refugee of the Christmas wars, I fly panicked to my
EXILE. Which my side? I can’t remember: Holly bespeaks joy of holiday
,
while thought of Christmas cheers me. Wasn’t there a war, though?

COVEN: facile conspiracy theory: occult women causing
AFOOT in the land: plagues, drought, crazy youths.
ENEMY so easily manufactured, but real world hard to grasp.
MIGHT: so often channeled through malicious invention, like what is invented about covens.

BEGET wish of stolen doubloons on the Spanish Main,
arrrr-EGRET will be your lot. A pirate’s life has no proper end,
BLARE of battle, crash of cannon, loss of limb,
CLOSE run escape-five pieces of eight to show.