O great and mighty warrior! You who have bested the beast Slain the serpent Beheaded the behemoth And exhausted all conversation options with the village idiot Shall you take your reward in gold? Yes, pl– Or experience points? I, what? For riches are easily spent But wisdom is forever The path of the prosperous often…
You little shits You snot-nosed snots You tell me now: Who launched the shots? Who broke my window? Broke my vase? Landed one right in my face My favourite coffee cup is wrecked. I oughta teach you some respect. Now you stay put. Give me that thing! When I show your folks this sling…
The snow is falling fast out there A million whirling flakes And though inside is toasty warm I would much rather brave the storm Than brave this big, brown bear How did he get in through the door? And why is he awake? I’m sure that brown bears hibernate Perhaps this one is fashionably…
There it is again! That strange pattern on the wall only comes once a flicker Shifting shadows to make space for other things Moving dead silence aside so the noises have a place to linger Don’t you see? Don’t you hear? No, he says, my friend No, I do not hear at all Just your…
Here, at the end of Sam Wittgenstein’s life Surrounded by grandchildren, children and wife He comforts his family, then he converses With his tender, latest of the hospital’s nurses As she goes about all her medical tasks She asks him what many have previously asked He answers the question, remarkably patient: “Ludwig? Alas, miss, he’s…
We grow the lantern fruit in warm soil Warm with sunlit days and life given Whispering in anticipation Start with a cutting from an ordinary husk cherry plant Physalis, my mother called it Proper in her naming But foreign, too Keep your seedling safe and healthy Water and manure, as you do Until it stands…
Do not sing,
my sister tells me
Do not sing
for they will hear you
and wreck themselves on the shore