BLACK thoughts prickle me like
CACTI. Once again the teacher’s thrown the
CHALK – and missed. I ask you, is it
CIVIL to be his daily target? Is there insurance
COVER for a kid so picked upon, abused? The
CYNIC in me sees this happening till the end of term, his
GREEDy target set at a chalk a day; a kind… Continue reading English Lit Class
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Potent Polka
MAGIC music brought alive the hop-step
POLKA, but here these Poles were violent. A
SPURT of blood startled the dancers: someone
THREW a Szabla at the man who stole his girlfriend.
All sport and no whistle
BINGO! the would-be
CROOK with greased and
CURLY hair, aims his fist.
DRYLY the captain knows he’s champion in any
FIGHT; this captain of the
FINAL trip for the day on the
FJORD ferry, who stands aloof. The deck being wet, the youth slips and down the
HATCH he goes. The deck was somewhat
MOSSY, the captain admits to himself, smells somewhat
MUSKY, as… Continue reading All sport and no whistle
Ent-matician
DRYLY, an ent ponders mathematical shapes.
CURVY? Too much so. No forkings or branchings. No rough bark.
MOSSY? Not at all. Functions grow no moss.
TORUS: too smooth, too regular. Ents need rough edges and sunlight.
The challenge of catching up
On the
JETTY they’re selling tubs of
PESTO, deep in its green as a
PRUNE is deep in red and brown, or a
TAWNY lion yellow in its yellowness.
The years roll on
BRASS doorknobs glimmer; cheap
PASTE jewellery dims; Miss
PIXIE’s homelife narrows as
WIDER becomes her frame.
Steampunk on the Back Forty
PAINT, a kind of bronze that goes on looking old.
ALLOY to that this image: self-moving plow, tanks, gauges, steam.
FORTY acres and a steam plow!
FIBER for a story seems thin, but the image lingers..
Grab bag
VOWEL, bought in a game show, connective, melodic
BLUNT, forthright or dull, which is it?
STOKE, fire building, coal shoveling, furnace filling,
SHADY: relief in summer or actions in hiding.
Post-Carbon
COAST is still, first stillness of centuries,
AWOKE an older day, diesel gone, ebbed away,
CLOTH sails unfurled are now for trade.
ANNEX past to present, rig masts and harness wind!
Abridged
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