SPINY dragon hiding among the
HEDGE branches, slithers as it
BEGINs its approach–suddenly
STUNG by a crushing heel to the head.
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Shared tasks – not
IRON Your own shirt, honey. I
WAIVE it over to you. Now there’s no
BASIS for saying, when I
VAPORIZE it, that it’s all my fault.
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.
Memento Mori
IRON Your wrinkles all you want, there’s no
BASIS for believing you’ll escape death, no
WAIVER for the fate that makes our life a
VAPOR, a mist that burns away as the sun rises.
Un/Divided
PUBIC and cranial, thoracic and digital:
ENNUI thrives when one is given
UNDUE emphasis over against the others.
EXCEL in wholeness of body and spirit and mind.
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.
La danza
Feet like FLINT,
Arms that FLAIL,
Head like a HAZEL
Nut, learning the RUMBA.
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.
By His Stripes
FLINT-faced determination etched in
HAZEL eyes blurred by tears as the
FLAIL falls while soldiers dance a mocking
RUMBA to the rhythm of his agony.
Ambiguous
He’d hardly
BEGUN to grow when he found himself fully-
GROWN. Time and tide waited not for this
UNCLE, the one who was considered the
SAFER relative, the one who never did any harm.