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RoofDragon

Posted on April 12, 2022 by whimsygizmo

Watch her land and stand watch. Catch her spare spangled scales as they fall. Hear her talons scritch, the roared hitch in her song.  She’ll cover you in veiny wingsthe smoky ink of starry breaththe embered scent of sky. She’ll warm you, warn you. Teach you … Continue reading →

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dragon rave 

Posted on November 5, 2021 by whimsygizmo

they’re all scales and tails and violence, until the rum hits just right, and the night turns starry-eyed and quiet.  it starts with the hum of the toothless one and then the green-striped gronk joins in. it’s a victory  song, for they’ve fought hard and long and … Continue reading →

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a postcard to my sometimes self 

Posted on November 1, 2021 by whimsygizmo

wish you were hearing the whisper of trees the wisdom of breeze and hum-twitter buzz, eyes held by dragon-stir of clouds and deep sigh-sky.  wish you were here in this moment before it wanders right on by.  In November, we poem.

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cloud dragon

Posted on January 31, 2020 by whimsygizmo

  magnetic poetry 

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Breathing, in fire and flowers

Posted on August 26, 2019 by whimsygizmo

.. I have pocketed the dragon, and she says we are for each other , that today’s enough. We make a meal of madness, a fist of arrow-alms a list of things we whisper-whimsy-want: ……..one meandered daisy chain, ……..a dozen … Continue reading →

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smallish dragons in boxer shorts

Posted on May 29, 2019 by whimsygizmo

we’re happy to report that though they snap and snort, they’re all smoke and they keep it short.     … Written for Poetic Asides.       

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distracted by dragons

Posted on February 5, 2018 by whimsygizmo

i marvel at their cloud-scales, ponder wing and talon, teeth. wonder if they’ll come right out (of clouds) and play. and so, {needless to say}, not much else got done today.   ..

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Dragon

Posted on November 2, 2016 by whimsygizmo

  .. I am spangled in the sacred skin of wandered sky, the whisperthin wishes of distant stars. I have swallowed moon; mooched her borrowed glow. See my wings? These fallen, fragile things are once again learning how to be. … Continue reading →

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dragon post-it

Posted on October 19, 2016 by whimsygizmo

… back soon. burning for a crimson sky. wait for me {sealing wax, string and all} by the sea.   …

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the year of the dragon

Posted on August 31, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. of living dangerously of fire and steam and dreams that go up in smoke. of chalking the street with our tumble-numbered days and wonderwandering through the slew of things we thought we wanted. of scales and skin and the … Continue reading →

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