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the hatched egg

April 5, 2015
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the hatched egg

does the hatched egg
exist?

once
it was all egg.

then

its confines harbored
a being
that in days
instructed by genes
used its new beak
to escape.

so
is
a hatched egg
an egg?
part of it
walked away as if on stilts.

the rest of it
is dried albumen
and calcium deposit.

shell,
not egg, plus
chicken,
not egg.

remnants
of egg
and a living,
fuzzy
miracle.

but there is
in the miraculous human mind
such a thing as a hatched egg.

the hatched egg is Renewal.
the hatched egg is The Resurrection
and The Life.

we fuzzy chicks,
recently renewed
and sticky with the amniotic drippings
of what harbored us,
stilt our new way out
and into the world.

sometimes we save our shells
in our scrapbooks.

into each life

November 5, 2014
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“Into each life a little rain must fall.” Thank Goodness for such unparched earth as results.

The triple acrostic was tricky when I added the stricture of keeping the total word count under 25. It comes in at 23 when you include the acrostic words. Rhyming L and I didn’t happen, though it could’ve if I could’ve worked in Bain de Soleil and Feng Shui. Didn’t, because a) I’d already done that with another acrostic and b) the far more important fact that it would’ve been nonsensical.

Here’s the four-line, triple, 23-total-words, only-one-of-the-couplets-rhymes-well acrostic:

invigorate your wherewithal
now add a dash of calamari
to generate a cleft motif
of mr. bosch and ms. o’keeffe

NaPoWriMo Poem for April 18

April 15, 2014
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avalanche of life

there’s a traffic jam on the corpuscular freeway
platelets block the venous road
and the bacterial taggers are snagged by the whiteys
in microville

joy in microville
the patch did its job and will dissolve
project lumberaround is in no danger

all the littleys are constantly jerked around
but no notice is taken
it’s a matter of random and into each sublife
brownian movement falleth

sublife in its avalanche
teeming flora jazzedup fauna
dart and swish and skid and slide
consume and subsume disappear with no goodbye

no questions asked
nor submind to ask them

but you’d swear someone’s nodding contentedly

Serendipitous Semi-Seahorse

November 17, 2013
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Sometimes mundane living delights us with a surprise. This morning I peeled a thin-skinned tangerine, meeting the challenge of keeping it in one piece, and found a Quasimodo of a seahorse in the peel’s underside. Scanner-capture yielded the above result, which comes with the lesson that Life is chock-full of visual wonder–so keep your eyes peeled. [mischievous smile]

Stil Life with Clay Head

February 5, 2013
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Since we can be lovely when we’re not becoming ash
Try recording graphically your Lovely Soul to cache
Insistence on an optimistic stance–a way well led–a
LIFE-LY friendliness in showing memory’s well fed

Note: I was tempted to include a comma after “well” so that it would read “Memory’s well, fed.” I left the comma out, because it would klunkify the syllable stressification; but I invite you to consider the subtle difference in meaning.

The acrostic weighs in at thirty-five words, or forty if you include the acrostic words doing double duty. And it’s a quintuple acrostic, though a little fudgy since exact characters-per-line isn’t even close to achievement.

But it’s far from the ultimate in quintuple acrostic word economy. About four years ago I did one whose first line was “The JonQuil’d KoalA.” Three lines, a total of fifteen words–and the acrostic was TEN JACK QUEEN KING ACE. It CAN be done, my friends, and one fine day I’ll blog-post the image, which is headed by an illustration that included not only the Kee-YEWTEST li’l Koala you ever did see–and Jonquil’d to boot–but also the poker hand known as the Royal Flush. I leave it as an exercise to you, O revered Reader: which twelve words followed the first line?