Monthly Archives: April 2016

The Importance of Being

Posted on April 28, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. Earnest, we’re seeking more than all this scattered skin, some place inside ourselves we might be -gin to hide. Stop hiding. Un -mask ourselves to sun. Be come one (come all) with the concept of un -knowing. The essential … Continue reading →

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She:Nanigans

Posted on April 28, 2016 by whimsygizmo

{Pepsi Mermaid Cheerleader with a Vapid Vampire Twist, Kissed}   She’s a rah-rah soda sea girl with an imp -ervious need to feed on boys with alabaster skin. They like to make passes at her rose -colored glasses, and her … Continue reading →

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the girl hates bios, mirrors. loves the sky.

Posted on April 28, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… she is sans serif 10-point type, often italicized never bold. she is onion paper see-through skin. easily erased, truth untold. she’s scribbled whim and ellipsis salt, ridiculous blessings, cacophonous grace. she’s words in margins, indigo fire. moon swallowed, sunset … Continue reading →

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Important Overdue Notes to My Oblivious Former Selves

Posted on April 28, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. Don’t do it. Just don’t. It’s not worth it. It won’t be worth it. Don’t say that. Just listen. Your mama knows what she’s talking about. Don’t love him. Just don’t. He’ll ruin you. You might have been ready, … Continue reading →

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Import Aunts™

Posted on April 28, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. Their names are Bessie and Gussie and they’ve got things to buy. Bring truck, bring barge, bring bussie; these ol’ gals are on a cashflow high. From catalogue crazes to Amazon haul, they’re orderin’ stuff by the trunkfuls. But … Continue reading →

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Tea, and Ceremony

Posted on April 27, 2016 by whimsygizmo

When you serve tea to your guests, you should simply serve tea from your heart, and think about nothing more.   – Sen No Rikyu   …  When we don’t wanna think, we drink. Tea and rum -bled phrase, days and … Continue reading →

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17 American Sentences (that may or may not make sense)

Posted on April 27, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. When it comes to grocery shopping, I’m a bona fied full-cart girl. Poetically, not so much: give me 12 items or less, some space, please. Wordy drawn-out sentences present me in southern drawl, chaos crawl. Whitman had his leaves, … Continue reading →

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r   o   o   m     t o     b   r   e   a t h e   in   t   h e     w   o   r d s

Posted on April 27, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. she gives us room             to breathe in the words, bring our own                 hearts to the table, and fill in the spaces.                 she leaves traces of white       that we might write our own                   selves upon them,                  in between. waterfalls of space           … Continue reading →

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Brewing Up a Poetry Burg

Posted on April 27, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. He’s ekphrastic and fantastic, in fine form, and free verse, too. He can slant rhyme or ottava rima (I don’t know what that is? Do you?) He quadrilles us, and he thrills us (and he fell in love with … Continue reading →

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ghost poet

Posted on April 27, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… now you see he(a)r(t), (k)now you don’t. she’s a gypsy jasmine (jazz-mine) tall imp -ossible sip of (S)om-thing you’ve never tasted. but, don’t fall in love ……….(lust.lost) with her high-fan-ate-ed(ucated) Poe-e-tic soul too s(w)oon. be ………-fore(play) you know it, … Continue reading →

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