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Words for Gnomes
The 7th and 8th of May I had a friend, a fixed-face woman who wore her chiselled chin with pride of place. She rose at dawn to look for work, and when I asked her where hope would take her feet that day, she said — Anywhere there are rolling hills, singing children, and people…
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2 Easy for Miz Quickly
Got Me on My Knees He’s been arguing with himself these days. It’s all gone wrong. Been wronged. It’s a paler shade of broken, he says, while he argues with the mirror, and longs for her legs. A lost prisoner to her songs. And he falls into blond on blond dreams, begging Layla, you’ve got…
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Easy for Miz Quickly
Finished It’s some kind of dark joke — machines gone mad. Debussy playing on the radio and Peggy Lee singing … “Fever” on my ipad. Debussy finishes before Peggy. Men usually do. Miz Quickly’s “Easy“
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Friday’s Gnomes Forms: “Sijo”
Poetic Form: Sijo: Three lines. Each line varies between 14 and 16 syllables, with the middle line the longest. The first line states a theme, the second line counters it, and the third line resolves the poem. for: Gnomes Notes: Taarab (or tarab) def https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taarab
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Oh Joy for Miz Quickly
Eighty Words About Dust It’s like this — I like dust. Not dusting. I like its single-mindedness. Its persistence. I like the science behind an avalanche of dead skin. A flurry of sloughed debris. It’s desert dry. Dead. Devious. Really. I like to chase it about, snap it, flick it with a cloth. It hides…
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Twiglet #44 “a bare room”
Dear Departed It looks like the outside in here with shadows feasting on dust, on webs and invisible draughts, and dried leaves dancing the floor. A creaking space. Empty. No echoes of your goodbye goodbye goodbye. Twiglet #44 “a bare room”
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In the Dumpster for Miz Quickly
Conflicted these are autumn’s dying days, when my presence is a stain, a conflict of colour with the sun, when I am little more than my shadow (it folds and fits neatly beneath my feet), and there it remains, constrained, until I move. or die. for the marvellous Miz Quickly’s Dumpster Dive Based…
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