Gear (Notevember 2022, #30)
Fossil-fuelled heart for a grey dinosaur
Slick as petroleum, that’s what you are
All that you stand for, it makes my blood boil
How can’t you see blood is thicker than oil?
Month: November 2022
Uh-oh (Notevember 2022, #29)
It had been a disastrous week. Literally – with news of local flooding. Figuratively, too; Denise had dumped me on Monday, moved out by Wednesday, and on Thursday morning I discovered someone had rear-ended my car.
Camping (Notevember 2022, #28)
I hear blackbirds
I see orioles
They know the winds by name
Singing them out
I know the winds, too
Snack (Notevember 2022, #27)
One more walk in the snow
I can feel your trepidation coming closer
One more breath, then I go
It’s the hardest thing to know that it’s all over
Ego (Notevember 2022, #26)
I’m the mascot of House Stark
I am mighty, hear me bark!
When I yip and when I yap
I can match the thunderclap!
Tempting (Notevember 2022, #25)
Ugh, mimes
The perfect metaphor, aren’t they?
Pushing against invisible things
Conjuring obstacles for themselves out of thin air
Trying to fit into made-up boxes
Fairy (Notevember 2022, #24)
I could see one now; a Fairie scout sitting on the desiccated corpse of a Nightmare Beast, like a hunter posing on a trophy kill.
Booger (Notevember 2022, #23)
“This cold will be the death of me.”
I think that’s what I said
as I was leaking snot,
more than could fit inside my head.