Noncommittal

Tightrope

Sometimes ;  oftentimes,
Fencing between pastures,
A somnambulist tightropes
Precarious, on issues various ;
Playing the funambulist :

Vertigo checked by gyro,
No netting for settling
Or let-go .

Gyroscope

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Hermits

Hermit

I stay indoors mostly :
An early tomb—more roomy .
I imagine the webs of nature ;
The realities shut me out
In :

Nest of wasps, swarm of gnats,
The Georgian sun fueling the
Snail–paced humidity—air with
Texture .
It is not a dislike of nature ;
On the contrary,
Documentaries of the –ologies
Intrigue .

In the nighttime, it is only
The moths and mosquitoes,
Countered by the bats
Scooping with spiky wings ;
Most of the bothersome
Things are sleeping .
The planets, I hop for real :
A reminder of my
Smallness
In my bubble of awareness,
Indifferent .

Some socially inquire—
worry—about hermits .

Bat

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It’s Time !

ToiletGold

It’s time to poop .
It’s time to poop .

Shovel tons of food
Down the gullet chute .

It’s time to poop .
It’s time to poop .

Your belly’s so big
It’s beginnin’ to droop .

It’s time to poop .
It’s time to poop .

Plant fanny on seat
And ring the hoop .

It’s time to poop .
It’s time to poop .

ToiletRoll

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In Kansas

HouseDream
The grey–twisting sky retreats and
Corn sweats under the heat dome—
Evapotranspiration
In the Midwest cornbelt
[ W h ither ing ]
Waits relief ?      You know where .

KansasTopeka

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Bicameral Risk

ACases

With bicameral brains
The bicameral congress
Uses bicameral lettering
For bicameral inhabitants .

The right case pains
The logical left . Bogus
Laws fettering
The lower–case fonts .

THE SHOUTING CAPITAL
ignores the miniscule .

Pumping hearts,
Bumping fists,
Blood–flooded brains :
Two houses at risk .

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Gremlin Bell

GremlinBell

In the tinkling pitch
Of the biker’s bell
Lies a charm to quell
Imps, smelling like fitch .

Flattened in asphalt,
Gremlins can spring,
And havoc machine
With myriad faults .

Perking pointed ears
For the battuto purr
Of engine whir—
Piqued to ravage gears .

The ogre prowls for motorcycle growl,
but a jingle pains the monster to howl .

Motorcycle

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The Smell of Old Books

BooksOld

The sense of smell sits
Connections that conjure
Collecting layers of
Evolving volatiles that
Waft from the timeworn
Measures that manufacture
A primitive primer
Chemical keys tumble
Marking the milieu
The breath of the books
Bound by ribs and backbone :
The figments from the Higgs
Valid by touching a
On the margin of memory,
The relics and records
Dust, darkening buddhi .
Whiff of chocolate or coffee,
Tomes drafting whilom tense :
The mind from milestones .
for Particles present,
The levers of the locks :
With molecular intimacy .
Entrenches being in chapters ;
Structure for the specter ;
Field hadroning an ego,
Vague typographic corpus .

Ulysses

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O of Indo-Euro

SunChariotCorn

From the Fertile Crescent,
Then north of the black sea,
Indo–European spread
Like pollen shaken
From cornstalk tassels
Onto the backs of
Galloping mustangs ;
Bands breaking off the mob,
Slowing strings harnessed
To plow ahead the harvest .

Plow

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Tiger

Tigris is the biggest
Cat, black–arrowed
Orange river flashes
Past .   Pointed claws
Dagger–long, deathly
Fall .   Pelange clashes stark,
Dichromatic camouflage.
Mane rounds a chuffling
Jaw, white as its earmarks .

Tiger2

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