Category: Miz Q
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Nudge #6
Lightnin’ Strikes, No Matter I Hang on to the Flowers on the Wall. Listen. The Sound of a Butterfly, Over and Over — O’ to be a Daydream. to Make the Empty World Go Away, You’re My Fever Time, Just My Way of Walkin’ Nudge 6: from a list of song titles and…
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Based on a Poem Title “Of Mere Being” by Wallace Stevens
Based on a Poem Title “Of Mere Being’ by Wallace Stevens I remember being so young — being bewildered by scent. Dad could smell snow coming. And rain. It was a scent like white closing in on hills, or a shock of winter stars falling. Or the closing white of linen sheets on a firm…
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Au Revoir Miz Quickly
Between Here and Shortly Before Noon It’s still September. Sun rises at 7AM. Pivots on papier-mâché light. Life is A car racing by, too fast for this lane. My bones wake me, not black-beak crows. The backdoor opens. Closes. An exit. Into the garden. The future flies. Maybe A loaf of bread and a newspaper.…
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A Coup de Foudre
An Indiscretion with a Dutch Woman This woman has a secret. She’s been hit by a thunderbolt. Lightning. Love at first sight. A coup de foudre. Goedemorgen, she says. So even toned. I nod. I smile. A lack of mutual language. A smile gets you farther than shoes will a mile. Wie ben jij en…
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Carry Me “Quickly”
Casually Smart Fine and grand as sky, my new woolly jumper. Should carry me through fashionable transparency. What to wear, when and where. Racks and row, a blizzard of clothes. – I left you a voicemail – I’ll bring dessert, but what is smart casual? Miz Quickly’s Carry Me prompt. Image unSplash
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dVerse Quadrille #64
Quickly Around the Neighbourhood The old house on Hollow Road is being gutted like a mackerel. Dust fouling the air. How long can you hold your breath. These things never happen quickly. – There’s a shopping trolley in the creek, water up to here. It used to be fish. dVerse Quadrille #64 “Quick”…
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Quickly on Blenheim
Quickly on Blenheim Story goes they were caught in a rainstorm. Sudden. Unexpected. Diana’s temple was their cover. Their umbrella. He proposed as the story goes. But he was a politician – nothing goes unscripted. — The rose garden is dry as crackers. Soil is puzzle-poxed. Black spot and cirrhosis. Rain is as scarce as…
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A Merciless Sestina
One Day Over Time I’m not always as green as grass. I am without direction, like wind, I’m not always clear as spring’s sky but I do count those falling stars, and make wishes on them, and I wrap myself in hope of seeing the sun rising. I used to believe Revelations, rising up like…
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A Dog and A Tree for Miz Quickly
Dog and Tree I am not four paws nor in need of a bone I ‘m not a cold nose nor a tail that wags I don’t do kibbles and I don’t do it from a can, and I don’t need toys that squeak and annoy. I am green, (except for when I’m not), and…
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Wicked Games with Miz Quickly
Wicked Games First things first — The world was on fire, it looked at me, took me, and shook me. What a wicked game you played to make me feel this way. Second thing second — I’m the one at the sail, I’m the master of my sea. What a wicked thing to say you…
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