Category: Miz Q
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Miz Quickly’s Catch and Release #2
He Doesn’t Care What the Papers Say Forget things likeumbrellas.Restaurant food.Fast cars and posh clothes.Face masks. Evening mist fills his eyes,this shepherd and his sheep.Stars that once breathed in fire,now blink in patterns of brokenlight, and the apple of his eye, these sheep, who ask noughtbut to possess this verdant day.The shepherd turns his headagainst…
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Miz Quickly’s Prose Sonnet About Rain (draft)
An Untitled Prose Sonnet (for those using visual assistant/speech software) Rain divided the day in half. I usually write in the morning but I spent it idle, wandering wordless. You mowed the rug-thick grass, that robin following behind you, and you laughed at its flitty chirp, as it pulled over-fat…
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for Miz Quickly’s Hidden in Plain Sight
Balancing Teacups It’s a balancing act.That tottering sunshine-bright teacup balancing on your knee, orthat void between wakefulness and nod, when your head snaps back, and it chooses awake.And life, of course, pretty much all of it. for For @Miz_Quickly Hidden in Plain Sight and shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter ©Misky 2021
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for Miz Quickly: Oh Brave
Be Brave I.I’m older now. LovedAnd well worn.Like a favourite pair of shoes, andI’ve a happy heart forSimple things.Bravery. Faithfulness. Patience, Except when it comes to fishing. II.My sister loves fishing. She braves Freezing water forHours on end withNothing more than a shiverTo show for it. My dad lovedFishing. We scattered hisAshes on the…
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for Miz Quickly Day 25
Molly (a poem in reply to Mary Oliver’s “Percy”) My dog, named after my mum’s beloved dog,although she told me some years laterthat she’d never had a dog by that name,or for that matter a dog of any name, and when I showed her an old dog-eared photoof her holding…
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Day 24: Miz Quickly’s Bones
The New & Improved Dictionary of Skeletal Anatomy occipital: a vehicular roundabout in England occipital protuberance: the centre mound in a roundabout with low-growing trees to prevent people driving straight on superior articular: a very well spoken person, sort of like Stephen Fry clavicle: a tidal flat, or possibly a frying pan head of humerus:…
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Miz Quickly’s Catch & Release #1
Finds in a Sketch There were shirtsleeves rolled upand muscles tight and pressed,and somewhere in the distancelions roared their same complaint,a sound that seemed soft as velvet. Then the pulling and shifting, andthe circus tent came down, floating, a cloud of dusty dry summer, a risingcurtain that nature couldn’t suppress.The game was up. The work…
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Miz Quickly’s Word List #2
The Quilt When her husband died she torehis shirts into tiny squares andstitched the squares together again. She made a quilt to cover the bedwhere she and her husband slept. All’s fair where there’s small love.She turned her grief to art. Unpicking her grief, restitching it with death it’s-natural tonal thread as she coped with…
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Miz Quickly’s 28.02.21
A Question of Goodbye I can’t breathe when I say goodbye. It empties my lungs, the way I emptymy head so sleep fills the void.It empties the sky of light, darknessfilling the straight sides of my circle. Should I say goodbye when I passsomeone in the stairwell? But when does goodbye end?Is it when a…
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for Miz Quickly’s 27.02.21
Bad Boy, RUOK Bad boyBilly IdolR U OKYou rising up weed-like, walkingOn your own burnt mile. You, snarling snake in the voids.On a hard rock dirge.R U OKBad boy Billy’s going to crash and break.Bad boy Billy’s not OK. for Miz Quickly’s Day 27 “RUOK” prompt © Misky 2021 And while I have your attention,…
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