The Quality of Mercy

Day gathers cold from countless hearts, the only warmth dancing fire at the base of stakes.

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New Calendar

January icy fjord backed by snowcapped mountains July white sand beach and swaying palms September fertile fields December frost on windowpane sparkles in stark sunlight All serene optimistic Unmarred by the daily catalog of expectation and loss

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Klout

Found influential in ocean and magic birth control and frog claw hammer and cheese I am the algorithmic mystery. A pied piper of puppet and translucence gerbil and subduction sleeping and stone I am the algorithmic mystery. —- @marousia challenged me to write a poem of free association and imagism. This is closer to free [...]

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Mermaid

She is a lovely sun, red hair cascading down in jubilant rays, a flash and ripple of rainbow gathered across her thighs. She sings to me and I croak replies, stunned she has arisen to bless such a sad sailor as I.

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Heidi Gets a Handel

A child of vigilance and hatred, at least toward spinach, she searched the fridge’s sixteen plastic containers for last night’s leftovers. Multitudinous possible punishments considered, deemed of no account, the garbage disposal sang the Alleluia Chorus. —– @gavroche challenged me to write a poem using three particular words. See if you can guess which ones.  [...]

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1936

for Joe M. (1926-2003) . Walking up the dirt road from home Joe saw a man in shirt sleeves wearing a brown, felt fedora cocked at a rakish angle. Neither spoke. Joe knew of the stranger, knew the man and his family rented the house at the mile corner. Joe kept his eye on the [...]

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Customer Service

As spoken by “Dave” Though you have sufficient funds on your card for the items you attempted to purchase they are insufficient at this time. You should have two dollars more ventricular virgin crap shoot the amount suburban anaconda of the items juju bean clearly rastafarian mancala hezbollah harley sun. Have a good day Mr. [...]

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Begotten, Not Made

The day to change everything unfolded slow as a flower, color already established because he was inside: black. His day was a flower, but the leaving was through a door of silk from a windowless cell. After waiting his allotted time, he rose on wings and met the world, programmed to sting and sting and [...]

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Hazard

She pulverized cooked turnips and folded them in with the mashed potatoes, as if we wouldn’t notice the flavor of Satan settling on our tongues, sulphur along with the mild buttery goodness of the unassuming spud. I don’t recall who won the test of wills, I just remember us surviving what God provided.

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Entwined

Romance is not the stoic hero wading into another’s life to engage in major reconstruction. It is two trees grafting themselves into one. – An Example

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