Month: Feb 2021
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Miz Quickly’s Coup d’œil Owl
Coup d’œil there’s silver in my hair,the real me melted awayin a coup d’œil and just like that,another day went badly. my youth astray, awaywith a wink and a grinuntil it was all too late. for Miz Quickly’s Animal Prompt, Image: “The Owl” by Huang Yongyu © Misky 2021
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dVerse’s Eagle Haibun
I’ve seen a raven, seen a crow, seen a robin in the hedgerow. Once saw a hawk, might’ve been a falcon, or maybe a kite, seen lots of pheasants, and a few dead ones on the road, and I’ve seen a dozen starlings strip a cherry tree. But I’ve never seen an eagle, and doubt…
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for VV February 2021
I Am Adrift … And just want to un-write what was just sent, and thinking,Isn’t there an I-take-it-back emoji. Andwhere’s the Undo? Oh, if pigs, all pink andsquealing could fly, we’d all be in the clouds. Hiding. Funny, how silence can be a flared-throat.Hissing.How it can throw you off a cliff. Silence,and her mystery was…
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Miz Quickly’s Yellow
Her Long Finger Is . . . sunrise, a clawing light,trophy of grim and hardenedwarriors. Silent gold, a lightand stinging slash,a shot, a cut across a harlot’s skythat slaughters night. In her hand, tucked behindher back, she holdsnoisy heat. It rises with the multitudes,she throws her swordbehind the march of men.She is the long finger,the…
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