Daily Archives: April 19, 2016

Puff

Posted on April 19, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. Just like that, your childhood’s gone. Be -fore you ever got to frolic in the autumn mist, or anything. Before you’ve found a proper dragon to share your sealing wax and strings. You paint your wings and you sing … Continue reading →

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Blow Dryer Arm (Acute BDA)

Posted on April 19, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… This is, by many lengths, the least cute pain I’ve ever had. I’m tellin’ you, Doc, this BDA is very, very BAD. It aches, it quakes. It trembles. It sings a mournful song. Its nerves are all in tangles. … Continue reading →

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Embracing it All {shake-swaying with seven}

Posted on April 19, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. The sky lulls, a bubble of grace. We grin. We dance. We twist our faces to the sun. We melt and shimmer as we stand in place and wonder how to prop -erly ponder all we’ve won. We kiss … Continue reading →

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Losing Our Cool

Posted on April 19, 2016 by whimsygizmo

{whilst swearing by all flowers} (with ardent gratitude, always, to E.E. Cummings) .. wholly to be a fool, we spring forward with both feet and road-rashed hands. stand in showers of kisses, flowers; call them real. beg, borrow and steal … Continue reading →

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Mermaid Survival Guide

Posted on April 19, 2016 by whimsygizmo

{How to live on dry land when what you really crave are gills.}   .. breathe words. hold bubbled syllables on on hungry tongue. swim sky. allow trees to spin their secrets, un -shelled in acorn, morning song. sing breeze. the … Continue reading →

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Can You Dig It?

Posted on April 19, 2016 by whimsygizmo

(A Golden Shovel) We real cool. – Gwendolyn Brooks   .. There’s just something about the way we groove, move and mold our words in real time; rhythm and rhyme our own cool -ing hearts. Something ’bout the way we … Continue reading →

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