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Details | Free verse |

The Former Tennent

It abides in the lintel, leaving only
to hunt in the klong.
It was here when we moved in,
we are the renting guests 
living under a large Monitor lizard.

Dawn coffee on the loggia,
the jungle going to sleep.
The movement of rain,
pacing over green canopies.

The wooden house creaks
as the sun floats over blue mountains.

Soon the tiffin carrier will arrive
on her tricycle,
bringing coconut rice
wrapped in banana leaf,
some pork dumplings.

A meal shared
with a cat and a huge reptile
as we watch the hour uncoil.


Details | Epigram |

Deep Thoughts Not By Jack Handy

I suppose it wouldn't be that bad to star in a cheesy tv show if the show was about cheese.

Careful what you order in the Korean noodle shop. It might arrive with mayonnaise on top.

Why are there no great InCel stand-up comics? And people say feminists aren't funny.

Ever heard of "Story Mapping"? Apparently it's a cult thing. A box of air for which people pay money.

"Come meet Baby Kim!" said the invite. Brought little knitted slippers. Turned out it was a kimberly monitor lizard.

Maybe covid virus can be spread by our ears.  Do not go out without earplugs! Also, do not drop your pants in public.

I thought I saw Johnny Depp downtown, wearing a girly hat. But it was Jennifer Tilly.
Details | Prose Poetry |

Dream Series: My Vegetable Garden

Last night I dreamed I was weeding my vegetable garden in the Drive-in theater, while people wandered back and forth from snack bar to their cars.

While pulling weeds, I saw a banana slug and was about to squish it when I realized it had legs. It was an eight foot monitor lizard! I chased it around the grounds and finally caught it and put it in the car. Then I went back to my garden to see if that huge tiger salamander was still there. It was!

I decided to go home with the monitor and the salamander when I realized, oh no, my little dog Daigoro was in the car! I got all frightened the monitor ate him, but he was perfectly all right. The rest of the dream was trying to drive home with Daigoro under one arm so the monitor wouldn't get him.
Details | Rhyme |

How Odd

A pretty flower solitary in an abandoned field of endless weeds
-unpicked by a weed lover, who is unfaithful.
A long zigzagging crack on a ruined wall
containing pockets of moss green moss,
glistening, and glossy
-harboring a colorblind emerald green lizard
unseen by the uninquisitive.
A nest way, way up high- consisting of tangled twigs picked from the dirt
-touching the sky
-empty and forgotten and yet revisited.
An unwitting cow covered by an enormous brown spot
that wraps around it with edges that barely touch on the other side.
A two headed snake that pops up on the internet, hissing.
A tiny hard to define bug upon your monitor screen
-just out of reach, that might in fact be an eye floater, which bugs you.
A cat and dog ying yanging purrfectly, forming an absolutely perfect sphere, that rolls.
An inside out fish tank with…yes you trapped in the center,
with a limited supply of oxygen.
A dead tree bough on a thriving tree.
A thriving tree planted in dead soil.
Dead soil on a thriving planet.
A wind that blows back against a breeze- and a breeze that blows back in turn,
and then out of turn.
Leaves bearing the brunt of the confusion.
Anomalies each… I have seen.

Details | Rhyme |

A Visitor

The month May had brought the hottest summer early                          
 Decided to go to our village cottage.                                                              Stayed in the cabin with family feel worthy                                                      Picked and ate the fruits of juicy orange.                          
                                                                                                                               
 Travelled an hour and reached our hut.                                                                    Put the key in the lock of the door easily.                                                               The door opened with a creak by the result.                                             Something moved in the lodge speedily.                                     
                                                                                                                                             
 A new visitor had visited our place certainly                                     
 That was a huge monitor lizard surely.                                                                     It produced a rattling sound by striking its tail purposely                      
 Rambled here and there in the room fully.                                     
                                                                                                                                          
 It's highly forked tongue resembled like a snake                                             
 And the new comer licked it's eyes balls frequently                                            His arrival realized our mistake.                                                                                     But we learned to encounter anything mentally.                   
                                                                                                                                          Had no intention to kill the shy animal badly                                                   Which would rather stay away from humans safely.   
Atlast the guest went out of the home gladly                                                             Felt that it had brought good luck lately.


Details | ABC |

The Twelve Months of the Year

January: is mountain of blessing where the births sing with hope for those 
Semen mentioned on this occasion to Ottoman Empire where conqueror doesn't 
Need dozens of sword to shout. He only understands the cap of his life when 
January was burn since the inception of the world and the time man started 
to building fences of education.

February: where freedom freed it people to capital city under the mercy of 
The master February has been crying for four centuries to the vultures 
Sound the quailed porcupine joke to the jackass foul middle of the street. 
February sees how the environs look like scorpion purges.

March: it like wow! It is this time machines chain hope from bear feet not 
To pedal on stony places, the cup of coffee bright light limbo from all the 
four cardinal points to center of imagination. Still the kids of March are 
busy building hope like hot tea in a hungry mouth.

April: where I appraise the scent of the night with little press with 
Slight finger release the impression to the sound of hungry lion pluck 
attack on group of innocents. April where apple appeases the mind of 
happiness.

May: where the marmalade scene like insects grid with Kings and Queens 
Where 
Wars colonized the continent apparition that attributed us and cut the 
Shared values, it is like we no longer with the same chocolate body. May 
Melts the hope we paint to the shape of Sahara desert.

June: is the time lives realize jaunting like the freak of lizard from the 
cliff to the naughty hill like boy giggling in the morning for food. In 
June the stars juxtaposed on the face of lad, it honored the horizon of 
Thought,

July: rain streams where oceans of mud running the streets to court of 
Beggars ply the night looking the sky roof if not leaking, where they pay 
To observe night vigil poverty bite the hope of young men from sleeping in 
The streets, tax tag page of uneducated individuals deciding the success of 
 a nation.

August: we organised ideas that can substitute ugly days painted by idle 
Minds flying night commotion cloud the epithet by personifying sunshine on 
the beach swimming the edge of life to idyllic verse. August with boiling 
Noise with fan of 
to the laughter.

September: set it foot to the foulmouthed tantamount to guitar sound of 
Zinc the sign of agreement cemented the swaps valley to rivers of 
Imaginations, the morning girl film the rim of September on quavering height 
of thinking to trouble not the symptom of success to the scenery. The wind 
Call on us to usher not hypocrite and refined unique taste.

October: kisses the octave lines the defiant the truth throws doubt if 
Diamonds can share smile with octopus the answer of loneliness dilemma of 
Transforming collaboration to life to the lullaby, charming the child to 
Bed the night. The Capella of rain motivating emblem zoo corner to the 
crooners sustaining the superstitious morning to months of decapitation.

November: the harvest of love to the Duke of document summon the 
Lackadaisical caress on broken lips expecting to shag each morning on the 
Belly of the cloud with system sitting to the syndicate of determining
minded individuals. Mosquito bite follicles of cold colored the eyes to 
asthmatic ash.

December: the descendants of December wallows in enjoyment drinking the 
Night with poetry and ladies on the beach hovering the idle mind to monitor 
The point of been silly to flash of light like the flash of morning. The 
Hungry bellies seeking Serenity with nonchalant meters words, don’t waste on dumb ears.

Book: Shattered Sighs