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Iambs To The Slaughter

It’s been a while since I’ve tried a sonnet; Covid locked me down with just haiku. The structure’s not a problem, but doggone it, I worry that I might not make it through One hundred forty pentametric...

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2/22/22 | 22/2/22

The 2nd month, the 22nd day, Millennium 2’s 22nd year (Okay, the twenty-third year viewed one way, But that debate we won’t be having here). I find such days amusing, I’ll admit, It’s even interesting...

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Equal Pay Day

On 15 March in 44 BC A group of 60 Senators of Rome (A filibuster-proof majority) Accosted Julius ‘twixt work and home. The dagger-wielding men 23 times Pierced Caesar’s flesh; had they been women,...

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On This Date In 1536

Every day’s an anniversary Of something fun or sad Or wet or unforgettable Or sweet or cute or hugely bad And in this technologically Advantaged age in which we live Researching them’s a snap unless...

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Carrying The Fireflies

I reached for the moon, having been told That should I miss, I’d land amongst the stars, Which sounded good when I was six years old And stars looked like those bugs we’d trap in jars, But,...

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A Churl’s Garden Of Verses

I have heard it said– More accurately, I have read it written– Poetry is dead And rhyming verse’s the cur by which ’twas bitten. Okay, that’s a lie: I hadn’t read those words until just now. What...

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Dust Bunnies Don’t Count

There’s nearly never an expired pet In our appliances, I’m pleased to say. I euthanized the range, but didn’t get A sad surprise on pulling it away And out of its accustomed, dusty nook To (too late)...

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Too Too Much

Your hawser (“that which hawses”) comes apart The same way Ernest Hemingway went bust And, sensing opportunity, you start To sidle seaward. Neighbor craft, nonplussed, Concerned yet stolidly...

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Last Monday

When September came, it used to mean New three-ring binders filled with college-rule, A calculator (if you were a teen), And freshly untagged clothing just for school. Near the end of August, Labor...

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Natural Disorder

Your furniture is smaller now than when You first began to scan this blighted verse And every time you read these lines again Depend on entropy to make it worse– By which I mean the chairs, et al.,...

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