Category: Miz Q
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for Miz Quickly’s Interview #4
Do Ants Eyes Narrow in the Wind Do ants stop, as I do, and listen to distant gentle thunder roll. Do they lift their feet in the snow. On hot sand. Do their eyes narrow in the wind. Do they know that come July they will sprout wings…
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Miz Quickly’s Interview #1
Twenty Seven Questions Found & Remixed in ‘The Last Wish’ Who are you?What shall I call you?You are common folk, am I right? Do you bow your head and sing canticles? Are you powers innate?Should I bite a chair leg? You mean those charlatans with stars on their hats?One thousand and two hundred?Are you playing at…
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for Miz Quickly’s Interview #1
On Wings Of Geese When summer flies off with the geese, it’s time to start picking blackberries. It seems like I’ve been picking them, blackberries that is, my whole life. Dad would stick me on his shoulder – he’d pick berries on the lower vines, and I’d eat whatever I could reach. He’d say, Are…
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6 July: The Maslow Hierarchy
A CONVERSATION WITH THE OTHER SIDE Wrong number, my mother says. and she’s speaking to someonenearby, saying “I misdialled her.” I hang up the phone.And then pick up it back up again.I listen. She’s still on the line. “You haven’t hung up,” I say.And she’s talking to me, butshe’s not saying anything. It’s words. Words.…
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Miz Quickly’s Bicycles
This poem is inspired by “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens and a poem by Peter Frankis and Miz Quickly’s 5 July bicycle prompt Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Bicycle IAmong the twenty-six spokesof my bicycle the only movingthing was the nine of spadescard pegged to the back wheel. II.I…
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Miz Quickly’s Cats
Cat Scratch What shape of fate made you Cat. Ginger stripe orcinnamon spice. Cat at the window, centre stage. Cat scratch on paper,you’re a poet you said.A cat named Dylan,gin-soaked and sleepingon the floor. To rack and ruin is the phrase he used.Cat at the door, black asa dark night, speakingto and replying “We”. And…
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Miz Quickly’s Do-It-Yourself Prompt
No. 1: Admirable Thing about Someone You Dislike Good things. Um. Good things. Good things about him, yes? Well, he shares the same name with my recently retired dentist. He has a long white beard with a blizzard of food stuck in it, think swallow’s nest, and nests and baby birds are a good thing.…
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for Miz Quickly’s Pleasure
for Miz Quickly’s Pleasure. The postcard template nicked-off b’s blog many years ago.
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