Short Accusative Poems

a fowl smell tonight
and we turned accusative
huge chicken farms

Dedicated to all the chicken 
farms along the interstates....

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hopscotch, retrieve a pebble
from the lake,

sitting under a tall tree
i will wait
for leaves to fall
on water ;

i will see through my seeds
a relief of roses,

overnight
in the soccer field
tiny mushrooms
popped up, wearing white caps
to see the game –

turning the pages of a book
opens a museum, 
i come on you
not accusative


SATISH VERMA...

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(A lone voice whispers)

I live in The Great Casum
The in-between place 

No one knows me as I watch you all race 

Some of the blind call me god 

Some don't
But you know

Good for them all
For I watch and wait

You'll soon know my name when you walk through my gate

Copyright John Duffy 

Casum is the accusative singular of the Latin word casus, which means "a fall; falling down; accident, occurrence, chance event; end, termination; case"....

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