SLUNK through grimy alleys into warehouse,
GOLEM still in crate, me seeking words, drafting words,
PAPER strewn with Hebrew–which the word of waking?
DIZZY sense: I am one syllable off and so clay will not shift.
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Fatal to the Footwear
LARGE brackish pond, once stepped into, having
STUNK something fierce, made me wonder how to tell it
SLANT for polished recollection, but it’s just tale of
NINNY who stepped in it and later threw out his shoes.
Navigation Error
BILGEd the ship upon the rocks,
GLEAMing sun glints from the waves.
EXACT GPS coordinates and proper charts.
TODAY is the mistake that lasts a life.
Attenborough
LLAMAs in the Andes, giant
OTTERs in the Amazon:
MUCKY, yet joyous trip for Attenborough,
EMBED all over South America and intone away!
Bad Gravy
AMEND the sauce! Why such thick wit?
GRAVY’s lumpy, judges will tut and pick.
CHAMP chef’s becoming past mirage,
BOASTs hollow. like selfies of has been collage.
Run!
HEDGE plunging, jolted alert with fear,
BEGIN mad escape from my pursuers.
STUNG by nettles, branch lashed,
SPINY thorn pricked; For now: alive.
Tribalism
BASIS for judgment: norms applied to strangers,
WAIVEd for self long ago-the good now a strange
VAPOR, true north obscured many turnings past.
IRONY: pilgrimage shifted to crusade and trafficked away the pilgrim.
Story of Body and Spirit
PUBIC, crotch, groin: words flare in creature’s attention,
ENNUI, lost purpose drags on spirit’s fragile state.
UNDUE focus might choose body, might choose spirit, thus not
EXCEL at story of body and spirit, thus pick threads from aa seamless garment.
Flinty Finn MacCool
FLINTy Finn MacCool,
FLAILs his blistered hand, nurses wound, imbibes
HAZEL juice, is transformed, a Salomon among druids-stands out for wisdom like
RUMBA dancer at a minuet.
I Know
UNCLE Claudius knows not that I know.
BEGUN, with father’s ghost appearing: dread,
GROWN now, till no redemption path remains.
SAFER to be born a serf to serfs with no ambition.