SURLY, TOUCH, SORRY, WREAK
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Base Ethos
SEIZE what you desire!
A BASE of followers underwrites
ETHOS. Surely, what the crowd wants is
VALID?
Under the Sun
SEIZE and grasp, the
ETHOS of the now, seems
VALID under the sun, but it will
ABASE those in its thrall.
2023-01-01 words
SEIZE, ABASE, ETHOS, VALID
Comparative Zoology
SHEEP, not over smart, needing watch,
HERON, poised to strike, self-assured,
PLACES different, one tended, the other wild.
DANDY doesn’t see self in either—and we haven’t mentioned the peacock.
Sheepish
HERON-like
DANDY disdainfully struts among the
SHEEP. But who really is out of
PLACE?
2022-12-31 words
SHEEP, HERON, PLACE, DANDY
The Mourner
BASIN in the backcountry often the site of
BAWDY activities not sanctioned by the park service, yet
REEDY bankside now quiet and holy where
VIGIL is held by solitary mourner healing slowly.
Two Births
BASIN of myrrh for Pharaoh’s child,
BAWDY celebration of succession.
REEDY hiding place, by contrast: a basket.
VIGIL from the bank, every breath the celebration here.