Daily Archives: November 18, 2022

Rubbing our back legs together to make this poem 

It all started with a cricket.  We found it in the thicket (over there, by the stairs). We heard they were good luck, and so we sat down  and struck up a dialogue,as directed by the bees.  Then a baby snail slugged by … Continue reading

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On the Way to the Forum 

A funny thing happened, see? We lost all decorum and now we must implore ’em to let us back in.  I am feeling rather glum, but now we’ve formed a sort of quorum (or at least a smallish scrum) and (oh, cr@p!) here they come! but maybe we shall overcome if … Continue reading

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better fates 

: thenlaugh, leaning back in my armsfor life’s not a paragraph–E. E. Cummings, since feeling is first  :: if we put parentheses around the dactyls and the trochees, can we        (pretty please) allow the dragons out to play?  i’ve made hibiscus tea(it’s excellent medicine, too) especially … Continue reading

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