Blue Hole
...Alice falls in blue hole dizziness,
bedraggled in white-smocked dress,
bloomers, too-high
knee socks, medusa-spread
of dirty-blond hair. Her nastiness hovers around
the royal-red throne...
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Categories:
caterwauls, animal, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Caterwauling With the Best
...I caterwauled with the best of them.
I caterwauled with the worst.
I put myself in a side pocket
And I walked beside my purse
My moans had seen some better days
My woes had seen some worse.
T...
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Categories:
caterwauls, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
In the Meadow
...The Devil's Hold
Into the devils hands you placed my infant form
with blind eyes and untutored minds you left.
The caterwauls of baby rang like an eerie storm
for the eve's respite you sought was pa...
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Categories:
caterwauls, childhood, family, growing up,
Form: Sonnet
Sleepless Safari
...Aside from a shipbuilder of renown,
Noah was a hunter of a new kind --
the first to capture and not “put-down”
every land animal he could find.
And he determined the sex of each one
so tha...
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Categories:
caterwauls, religionanimal, animal,
Form: Sonnet
The Kissing Ground
...Sophie's sweat
landscapes
the claret red horizon
thick serum
trickles
from a Sickroom -
a death ward
where cracked knuckles
spatter the fjords
moistening the planks;
bathing the laths ...
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Categories:
caterwauls, dedicationdeath, death,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
To My Sister Little Nell
...A small whine in my ear.
“Let me see. What have we here?”
A new little monster with a pinched red face;
Whose caterwauls usurp my place?
“I wish. I wish.” I’d opened wide,
My fledgling arms, l...
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Categories:
caterwauls, sisterme,
Form: Rhyme
Little Nell
...A small whine in my ear.
“Let me see. What have we here?”
A new little monster with a pinched red face;
Whose caterwauls usurped my place?
“I wish. I wish.” I’d opened wide,
My fledgling arms,...
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Categories:
caterwauls, familyme,
Form: Rhyme
9-11 Halloween
...Mist, Mist..
Why not whisper, why not speak?
When upon thy shrouded depths,
Thou knowest truly, what we seek
Darkness, Darkness
Why be quiet, why not be shrill?
When your hoot and squeal and ...
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Categories:
caterwauls, introspection, life, sad, urbanhowl,
Form: Free verse
Terror Terror
...TERROR, TERROR
Mist, Mist..
Why not whisper, why not speak?
When upon thy shrouded depths,
Thou knowest truly, what we seek
Darkness, Darkness
Why be quiet, why not be shrill?
When your hoot...
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Categories:
caterwauls, history, introspectionhowl,
Form: I do not know?