Monthly Archives: May 2018

cues

Posted on May 30, 2018 by whimsygizmo

.. sometimes they spark if you hit them just right, let them bump and grind, find their way along felt. we talk and chalk a few things up to strong drinks and weakness, the way the tables have turned, the … Continue reading →

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Grad(u)ations of Color, Light

Posted on May 23, 2018 by whimsygizmo

.. We are still learning, yearning for some diploma -cy, some salutatorian sunrise promise. Hold this crimson close, that one in a vermillion horizon to heart; start asking all the right questions: Can I pocket this praise? Can I fill … Continue reading →

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Pocket Storms

Posted on May 21, 2018 by whimsygizmo

… I have decided ……………(she thunders) that these last cold drops are mine, …..saved for a sunny day when arched and angry eyebrows know the sky shines quite too bright and I need just one little plop of …………….rain to … Continue reading →

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Profile of a Serial Killer

Posted on May 15, 2018 by whimsygizmo

… She gets her kix ……..(turns trix) down on Route 66; picks off the low-lying fruit, loops her fingers through their hair and stares into their ……(life flashes before) eyes before surprising them with the flash of her 38 special … Continue reading →

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Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut

Posted on May 15, 2018 by whimsygizmo

..  Moon snickers. She’s got a secret, a milky way of char- stone chewing up this dark sky. She’s all butter -fingers and mounds of moonbeam …….chuckles twix(t) the 3 musketeers sneers of Orion’s belt notch trio. It’s pay day … Continue reading →

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dawns the day, and so we lace our shoes

Posted on May 15, 2018 by whimsygizmo

run one. just one. and when you’re done, may ………..-be run another one. perhaps a half. another step. another breath. another sidewalk slap-hum, another strum of heart, another start another way of leaving, believing, grieving, receiving sunrise hope ………by …{quail} … Continue reading →

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Hesitations of the Dawn

Posted on May 9, 2018 by whimsygizmo

We forget her scar -let dress is just for early risin’, surprisin’ us with all its crimson silk applause. Pause, take a second ………..look , and book a table for two near the horizon.   .. Prompted by Poetic Asides.  … Continue reading →

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language lessons

Posted on May 8, 2018 by whimsygizmo

.. i am still studiously listening to the stutter of trees, the Braille of breeze, and the way these feathered things might sway their song. that moon, she’s a teacher. a preacher. a reacher of stars. a quiet far -off … Continue reading →

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be:c(l)ause

Posted on May 7, 2018 by whimsygizmo

  .. this wor(l)d wants to be a thou -sand poems.   ..

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muddling puddles

Posted on May 7, 2018 by whimsygizmo

.. gosh, my galoshes are sloshed. i’m gonna need a bum -bershoot to keep my willy-nilly birthday suit(e) saved unscathed from all this mud -(d)led muck. yuck, the sun’s come out again. i miss the stuck-struck spill of my jelly-belly … Continue reading →

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