SCALDing evening, in a boiling summer.
TABBY sprawled on the vent, but AC conked out.
STYLE of a sweltery night: taking cold baths, and hoping more than a
TEASE comes through the window at midnight: my sweaty kingdom for a breeze.
Dentist Appointment
TOOTH ache getting worse, I
SKULK to the dentist, hoping for a
BRISK visit, but no, they
SLOSH my mouth with water and start drilling.
2023-05-07 words
TOOTH, SKULK, BRISK, SLOSH
Dangerous dancing
I broke my ELBOW
doing the LIMBO. I
need to REVUE my
rhythm and stick TO TEMpo.
Some people will never…
I TEASE our long, sleek, sleepy
TABBY with the excess of creeping
STYLE learned from long years of sneaking up on her. I
SCALD my hand with the newly-made coffee when she reacts.
2023-05-06 words
SCALD, TABBY, STYLE, TEASE
Dueling Imaginations
LIMBO, old invention to help theodicy along, seeing
REVUE of souls passing before anxious inward eyes.
TOTEM and taboo—so, Freud might analyze prior belief, throwing
ELBOW of modernist at prior imagination, in favor of his own.
Will Shakspere
BALER: perhaps an attempt at dance, or boat rescue?
SCORN for orthographic flexibility reduces play,
FETID precision replacing ludic life where the Bard might
POST to his blog under a dozen different variants on his name.
2023-05-05 words
LIMBO, REVUE, TOTEM, ELBOW
2023-05-04 words
BALER, SCORN, FETID, PASTE
Note: due to a clerical type mistake, the word PASTE above was originally posted at POST (which affected at least some DQP poems!).