CRYPTic visions as he stands in corner,
DUNCE capped, and held of no account:
WHEEL will turn. One day. He will be known as
NOBLE. Except in this town, to these classmates.
2023-05-11 words
CRYPT, DUNCE, WHEEL, NOBLE
Divine Simplicity, the Wrong Kind
PRINT. What he said, the
VICAR, that God has laws, is portrayed as a
GAFFE. He had also said that God is loving. but laws do not s’il leur
PLAIT. God is only permitted to be one thing.
2023-05-10 words
PRINT, VICAR, GAFFE, PLAIT
Anodyne
My Pinot Noir is the very central PIVOT
of my evening slurp in my penthouse CONDO,
when I cease to chomp poetry and MUNCH
on the less tooth-wrenching pizza of PROSE.

2023-05-09 words
PROSE, MUNCH, PIVOT, CONDO
Too Much
PUSHY–I grow more so.
GRIPEs–I have more than before.
BLOAT–it besets me. The more my
ASSETs grow, the less content I am.
2023-05-08 words
PUSHY, GRIPE, BLOAT, ASSET
Missing out on the Tooth Fairy
With a
BRISK flick of the string tied round my
TOOTH it comes sailing out, goes off
SLOSH into the bushes, causing me to
SKULK around in the dirt trying to find it again.

The Great Ballooning
TOOTHy grin while scheming big.
SKULK around the hose, fill balloon after balloon. Then,
BRISK walk into house and up the stairs, the bin
SLOSHing all the way. Brother’s back in 20. The look on his face, when he comes up the driveway.