Short Sidled Poems

In a not-so-ideal
wedding idyll,
a homicidal,
recent bride’ll
get ideas,
not be idle.
When he shut-eyed, ill,
then she sidled
with a bridle,
fastened idol,
both hands tied, till
in came tidal,
claimed suicidal,
got car title,
left for Slidell.
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Sally snake seethed silently
She’d bitten her tongue and it hurt
Sally slowly sidled in the sand dunes -
Unable to speak but alert
The venom it spread through her body
She hissed and cursed in her head
No antidote for the poison within her
Now alas poor Sally snake lies dead

30th June 2016...

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We could not get sergeant wolf to smile or swear
We were annoying and threw thing at him through the air
He did not lose his temper or even look our way
I found out he has eighteen grand-wolves later that day.

I guess you have eighteen grand-wolves I said to him later.
He started to smile, and his teeth were large like a gator.
I think I liked him better when he did not look or move.
Got to go! I lied, as I sidled away with my usual groove....

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Last night it floated up,
trailing its satin sash over the sea,
it hung its sickle in the attic window.
Swimming back through currents of sleep,
she remembered where she was –
in the house on the dunes,
where greybuck stepped lightly
and left their footprints mornings early
on the pristine beach.
Even so, it was the house
where sadness sniffed her out,
it sidled in.

In nights to come,
she will bargain with the moon –
ask it kindly to refrain
from reminding
her of him....

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