AMEND, GRAVY, CHAMP, BOAST
Ouch (2)
SPINY prickles hiding in the
HEDGE silently, sneakily
STUNG me, and now, freakily, I’m
BEGINning to feel them
Run!
HEDGE plunging, jolted alert with fear,
BEGIN mad escape from my pursuers.
STUNG by nettles, branch lashed,
SPINY thorn pricked; For now: alive.
Heel
SPINY dragon hiding among the
HEDGE branches, slithers as it
BEGINs its approach–suddenly
STUNG by a crushing heel to the head.
2022-10-02 words
HEDGE, BEGIN, STUNG, SPINY
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.
2022-10-01 words
BASIS, WAIVE, VAPOR, IRONY
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.