Archive for December, 2020


The Mechanical Pencil

the more I erase
the more I push out 
the non-retractable lead

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Euphony Baloney

It's purported
Tolkien said that "cellar door"
is the most beautiful phrase
in the English language

euphony - the quality of being 
pleasing to the ear, especially 
through a harmonious combination 
of words, e.g. "The poet put euphony 
before mere factuality"

Transmission... via 
fecal-oral and aerosols... 1

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1 Arslan, Muhammad et al. “Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 via fecal-oral and aerosols-borne routes: Environmental dynamics and implications for wastewater management in underprivileged societies.” The Science of the total environment vol. 743 (2020): 140709. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140709

Slice of Life

I brush the tip softly
with the soft short 
bristles of my beard
and then lick the 
underside, caressing 
the fold with my lips

biting
ever so 
gently
drawing 
it in

What can I tell you?
That's just the way
I like to eat my pizza

Chagall 2020

Square Bidness

Should I ever become President
I am appointing Robert Ludlum
and N.K Jemisin to my cabinet
as Joint Secretaries of Complex
Plots.

Chagall 2020

Advice, at any Price

avoid standing 
on the shoulders 
of those who lie 
supine

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Uncanny

can you see the resemblance?
it looks so much like life

Chagall 2020

The Surefooted Balloonman

be aware
we spin while we fall
it's what planets do

in buoyant black
all was created

absence (of color)
makes the heart

grow fonder

I play on words
for death 
methinks
is no coincidence

Chagall 2020
I dreamed once
I dreamt precisely

the guests went
as crows flew
the shortest distance 
between two points

essentially synapse

and paradise
is not all 

among the candles
in the dark
deep in pinewood
I am kindle

blessed are they
who withstand the wind shift

Chagall 2020

Prelude

To see my eyes in yours
is unlike a hand in hand
it is

a whisper spoke softly
in the mouth of a kiss
words that linger 
upon parted lips
a tug, a pull
luscious swipes 
glorious glides
so slippery when wet

we surrender to the tears
we find there

Chagall 2020

Come Fly With Me

billions of tiny hearts
twice as many wings

Chagall 2020