2 for the price of 1

GOING back home to my weak and wonky
HOVEL where the windows are weak-minded, and the door
HINGE, the one at the bottom and not at the top, has a
QUIRK that makes a rough and whinging scuff along the floor.

or

GOING back to my
HOVEL where the door
HINGE has a
QUIRK.

Backstage, Theatre, Dunedin.

History, Hovel of Reason

QUIRK of philosophy to elide coordinates and story. For instance:
GOINGs of angels on a ladder in known place while a man dreams one known night.
HINGE turns in specific time and space, in history,
HOVEL of reason, yet destination of divine descent.

1 day’s worth, 2 day’s worth

DINER emptied his plate in a
TRICE. ‘It was nice,’ he said. ‘But the only thing to
SULLY my pleasure is offering an
INGOT and getting no change on it.’

DINER, perusing the racing guide, at LUNCH, in a
TRICE, changes his mind re the HORSE, whose
STYLE is in a state of SULLY after
COYLY losing not just the bettor’s shirt but his INGOT.

Bullion…

Gone in a flash

SULLY we always quotidian joys with grasping?
INGOT discovery proclaimed, converse ceased:
DINER emptied, food grown cold and flavor dead,
TRICE-moment’s flash of profit, now steady habits of living are forgotten.