SHEER cliff descended, pre-positioned kayak retrieved: paddle for it.
DRIER moments soon envied, each breath stokes hope of freedom.
ROWER, sore muscled, with blistered hands, feels he can
CINCH it. Just a few more miles across the bay, before the sun comes up, before alarms sound.
Sheer Power
SHEER luck that the
ROWER and her duffer stayed
DRIER than any others- all for her
CINCHing up on the oar over and over- but perhaps it wasn’t sheer luck, but sheer power!
Ambition
SHEER surface waters hewn by a longship,
ROWER exchanges his oars for axe and shield.
DRIER days ahead, and new glory: a
CINCH to gain the jarl’s eye––and gifts.
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2023-01-18 words
SHEER, DRIER, ROWER, CINCH
Nabbed!
I saw the body snatcher foolishly FRISK
the recently-interred (then disinterred) STIFF
on the cemetery’s CTV camera’s PHOTO.
Yay! Now we have the first of our DATUM.
Hollow Cheeks
STIFF upper lips, unsmiling team-what’s left of it-gathered.
PHOTO shows frostbite and hollow cheeks. Still:
DATUM is finally established-until the ice melts.
FRISK them now, you’ll not find a scrap of food, perhaps some scribbled prayers.
Wasted Weekend
SHARE of weekend’s entertainment goes to
VAPID “reality tv” when it really
OUGHT to go for star gazing,
HERON watching, rock skipping.
Investigation
FRISK the papers like a suspect hiding a
DATUM instead of contraband or weapons: somewhere, a
PHOTO, a transcript, something to justify a
STIFF back and an incessant headache.
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2023-01-17 words
STIFF, PHOTO, DATUM, FRISK
It’ll still hurt
‘CRANK up the tooth-pulling
LASSO, nurse, I’m gonna pull this here
TOOTH right outta his everlovin’ mouth.’
JOKER. My dentist is such a waffling joker.