LARGE ants,
LEECH filled puddles,
MUDDY sidewalks: these can’t make me
SHIRK my quest. There’d better be Wi-Fi, though.
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Grant Me Something Real
ENDOW skill, senses, for living anew, I plead.
TWEETs, hyper ephemeral form, form of
COVER-in everything the meaning’s veiled,
AUDIT can only document traces of what has vanished.
Hidden Door
DONUTs in the parking lot late one winter night,
GNASHes of stress fall away, dissolved in moment’s joy,
RECURrence is rare, this hidden door to another self.
SHYLY wonder: do others have, not door, but thoroughfare?
Gamboling
HAREM of new lambs
GAILY gambols over pasture
TRITE though it be, their cuteness
KNEADs youth into stiff joy muscles.
The Word that Almost Won
SHALL this be the Quordle Poem that got away?
DWELL I hence in shadow of defeat,
CRUST of loss replacing victory’s feast in decay?
WILLY: the word that near would not complete.
A Reckoning
ADEPT in ordering our affairs, or not, yet comes the time:
PLEAD with our maker, if we can name him, for healing, for more days.
COMET appears and carves its warning path. A table of precepts,
DECALog’s worth, arraigns, heralds judgment, forces pleas for grace.
Misreading
UNITY of sign and sense, he reads on, in settling
GLOOM, treatise on skeletal anatomy.
TROPE of scholar spending his sight on mental quest-
LEMUR?! Who has a lemur in their leg?
Topgallant Royal
LOFTY perch, topgallant royal, sea at every horizon,
FEIGN stoic, yet feel all thrill, fear, wonder,
CHEST below with unread books, I read this height, this view.
BERTH is only for sleep: my heart dwells here.
Cherish All
ARTSY: pretense of person or society’s dread at creativity?
UNDID we high school typology, truly beholding beholders, could be
LE[A]NT new beauty to seekers of beauty? Let difference surpass wilful difference?
AMEND! Plead to cherish all, the same and the different.
The Two Ways
SHAKY grasp on the two ways:
PSALM One’s rooted tree, drinking delight or rootless chaff, dry carried away.
BELLE senses truth, yet finds in glamor a delight that pulls her into the wind.
STAGE glory: who seeks a rooted place, when role can be had to dazzle?