I read thru my nose my eyes’ll be ruined like my throat for singing both sides of a duet trying as songbirds to throat 2 songs at once mother’s reproving look a constant screen gridwork graphpaper to plot in skipping rope dropped a tiptoe mince roll to the outer edge feet finding a small stilt […]
Author Archives: Pearl
show me a bit of baudy
show me a bit of baudy for all the strut, where’s the magic touch proof muscle shirt Cohen verse, kleenexed codpieces of pity lines, the main thing is what I paid to see offstage — not the dance, the full (round, monty, backle) naked contact with greatness, with god. Now unbuckle the clever fripperies of […]
image is not all
(cross-posted at my other blog)
snapshot
Today sun is over everything, the world flat as a damp watercolor. Yesterday morning the clouds were rare. The sunlight kept popping out a hole in the deeply overcast fast clouds. Now a light on the chair. Now off. Now on the church steeple. Now on one building in the center of residential block. On […]
If I were . . .
…a meme, this would be the one. Any line could be a poem fodder to expand and expound on. That’s my justification and I’m sticking to it. Copy, paste, modify, and post your own! If I were a month, I would be: June with the unvarying humid temperatures. If I were a day of the […]