writes.
I set out to say this journal is exclusively poem drafts but exclusivity I set I can unset thus I’ll (unofficially) join the vegan cookoff.
A little chop here and a little food processor blending off-screen.
Voila: A vichyssoise soup made from 1 large leek, 5 field tomatoes and a little over 1/3 cup of a mixture of thai and sweet basil. It is dressed with a sprig of thai basil, a hot pepper and a sprinkling of hemp seed.
keloid, deltoids, trapezoids, ovoid, right honorably annoyed, evade, delayed, elude, occlude, slip out, elision, derision, decision, incisive, incise, disguise, guide, divide, easement, lament, encouragement, “dirgement”, DJ, smashup, bicycle collision, the spoke unkindly broke, radial becomes random, broker a deal, provoke, provocative, come on, invoke, invocative, vocal, yokel, heavy yoke, unevenly yoked with a non-believer, roped in, tied up, chuckle, chortle, snigger and yuk, yuck, bound to honor leg and foot, shook off the hook, flipflop, make a splash wriggle glittering as lake ripples, releeeaaaasssssssed.
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wrist rocks to counter
small muscles stretch as much as
the elastic dough
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
to destroy my ankles with
as a chaired fidget would mar
the watercolor dream-child