A well-bred unicorn must go to school to the school for unicorns in the forest far from home where the foundlings live delivered by the angels. She must have a uniform from the unicorns’ uniform
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How to bathe an elephant
A mahout rode her down the stream to where it widened out - a bath fit for an elephant. She sank on her haunches expectantly as we, up to our waists in the cold clear
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emptying my pockets of crumpled dead papers which sit on the dresser in a lined-up row, rose-white. my wallet a bassdrum and my keys a sharp jingle, this treble of pennies, divesting my goods. the
Continue ReadingYellow impressionism.
this is no way to find the expression. time after time I have tried. the yellow light which struggled through yellowing lampshades. the wallpaper; teastained, tobacco- stained hues. the light sometimes of a streetlamp, or
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and painted colour marches on the quayside. ads for movies, plastered to the buses wet sides, the names of companies and van-canopies, moving with the purpose of floating leaves and seagulls which bob on the
Continue ReadingA gibbous moon
like a pearl being drawn from an oilslick - chrys calls from our kitchen to the office to see. and it's wonderful! imagine - such a view just by leaving the office! it could almost
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Slo-Mo Lounging in hypethral of our ancestral home: we soak the sun in its full-frontal airing amid vacays in winter. In summers we acquiesce to the wind spooning us with its stomatic whiffs. There is
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Offing The beauty of brackens acknowledges my presence with a little jig. I smile back like one does to a natty new arrival in the neighborhood. The emptiness in those eyes summons me to shoal
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Capitulum Inquietudes incite us to assay why the gawsy is at a distance. Where is the grinch? Could it be the dearth of holibobs? Exiguous holdings? The infamy of furphies? Syllogism apart: nullifier is vested
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Negativing The night is replete with possibilities. Her nominees rope me towards the edge of your exile: without any logodaedaly I hand myself the pink slip. Negative energy like botnet is best ignored. Long-headedness hums:
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