TRAIT: super-speed, so fast he dodges rain-drops, the
FLASH! In the movie, there’s a rain of babies to the
PLAZA below. He saves them all! How? Speed and glucose.
STORK? Now a total Flash fan, her labors not in vain.
Category: extra
Log flume hype man
VIRUS lent name to viral, now also designating hilarity.
WATCH memes, standup clips, jokes. Merriment abounds,
KNOWN troubles, darkness briefly lightened. The log
FLUME hype man will always make me laugh.
The Notice Board
TOXIC or not, proclamations must go out.
SOLVE implied problems yourselves, Romans!
ALBUM, white canvas for the news that will
GRAZE the awareness of your days, for good or ill.
Gilgamesh opens
FILTH slowly lifts under the brush,
TRACEs of cuneiform start to show,
STONY witness says: “He who saw all . . .”,
FOLIO of clay, submerged in time, surfaced on a shelf.
Dinner
EAGLE swimming back to shore,
SLICK feathers unfit for flight.
SOLID plan for dinner turned to miss and splash.
TAKEN in perspective, eagle’s had better days.
WIDER river in spring, boars linger,
AWAIT a moment, await instinct, await daring to
CROSS for better feeding on other side. Will they be
MEATY prey for crocs?
WHINY din of forest, is it all for hunting,
LUSTY… Continue reading Dinner
Bernie at the Inaugural
PARKA against the cold, mask against the Covid,
SPINY old age, tougher than tough,
BUSHY hair tufts, sharp mind, scoldy tongue
CHAIR, Bernie, mittens. Who can forget?
Schachnovelle
THUMB inky, Zweig pauses from feverish writing about feverish
CHESS, tale of a man whose body slipped the Gestapo’s clutches, whose mind did not.
SYRUPy Fios de Ovos is brought to his table. The
HOTEL staff quietly fusses over Zweig. Perhaps the care of staff may yet ground an unquiet mind.
Schurken
WHOSE domain is predation upon fellow human may posit self
SUPER or über, so Nietzsche. Yet let that fearsome fish perform its function, the
SHARK–as for Humans sharking, they are not sharks, but Schurken, villains in a
FABLE about erring in species and thus erring in all that matters.
Invention
CHOIRs with orchestras and festive music are what
TUBAL-cain had in mind, inventing bronze instruments. Instead,
SCOURing earth, humankind mined, forged weapons of attack and
PARRY. Yet, on occasion, a battle horn would be used at night to sound the note of rest.
Prufrock has Toothache
MOLAR pain. Prufrock, pondering again whether to propose, to
MARRY, but can’t think straight for pain. Will there be time enough? Or will time, a cat, slink away like coiling smoke into the night,
OPTIC trace decaying in the fading light? Pain, held at bay with
DROLL musings, unspoken to his peers. Pain, and droll, and fear: does… Continue reading Prufrock has Toothache