BROAD sweep of turn now straightens, as hyper focused riders
BRACE upon the lathering horses: now the final stretch.
HIPPOdrome crowd holds its breath, transfixed.
GOOEY ice cream cones melting in streaks onto clutched fists.
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Boat Snack
BROAD river seems calm:
BRACE yourself for speed.
HIPPO swims faster than you think:
GOOEY and tasty to him you’ll be.
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A Murder on the Block
COUNT the shots-5?-call 911,
BUGGY world leaks its broken numbness,
LOAMY earth soon to fall on Marcel, murdered neighbor I never met.
CLOSE the book, Lord, chapters getting darker. Bring the new city. Soon.
Note: this happened last night. I did not know Marcel. He was shot to death 50 yards from where we slept.
Four Kinds
BUGGY wheels bog down in the
LOAMY soil, not yet hardened by wear.
CLOSE by are thorns and stones beyond
COUNT, but seed finds the tilled earth all the same.
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Oh, you mean, belly dancers?
LOCAL
BELIE dancers’ beads
CLINK while they – the dancers –
SAUTE dinner.
Plaid Banana Suit
CLINK a glass with me-may our merriment
BELIE the doldrums of the age! Cavort!
SAUTE 37 times in a plaid banana suit:
LOCAL joy might yet dent global woe.
Hole in the Wall
CLINK of spatula to pan as the cooks
SAUTE and simmer and stir;
LOCAL recipes and ingredients
BELIE the urban snobs’ slur.
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Root Canal
CANAL – the Panama one – cuts a water-filled
GORGE through the middle of a former
HAVEN, not only disturbing its peace, but
USURPing it.
Usurper has the City
USURPer has the city, rear guard flees hilltop via
GORGE under night’s protection. By dawn some will be far enough,
HAVEN reachable for the uninjured.
CANAL full of bodies a grim memory they carry with them.
Scylla and Charybdis
CANAL forms the short path home through the
GORGE, but a mythic beast and mythic storm
USURP the reign of peace over those waters, and
HAVEN becomes the last thing believed possible.
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