tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7739593115816665192024-03-29T04:27:23.317-07:00Shrewsbury clockA portmanteaushrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.comBlogger2003125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-75104190187063689742024-03-29T04:26:00.000-07:002024-03-29T04:26:32.262-07:00INTRUSION<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Occasionally in pictures which</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Have nothing to do with her I find</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">My grandfather's second wife</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="il">Fanny</span>. She looks implacable;</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Having made her way into the photo</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">She'll not be gotten rid of. In time</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">People will say "Oh, that must be Dora</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Or Hepzibah or could it be Elinor</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who put on a few pounds once Al died?"</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">They'll be wrong, though; I know <span class="il">Fanny</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">When I see her. My mother told me</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In our last conversation "<span class="il">Fanny</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Was very hard on me but then I</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Was not an easy child to raise."</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-44886952028914427502024-03-27T04:25:00.000-07:002024-03-27T04:25:37.450-07:00NAMING<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Max's children had names</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Only Max used. (My father's</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Was Sock and after 1956</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">No one ever called him Sock)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Of the names he made up</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I know three: Sock, Napugi </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And Gininganoy. (I write them</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lest they be lost too.)</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.6px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Were there nine names or eight?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">My Aunt Edith died as a baby so</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Perhaps there hadn't been time?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nonsense! How else could Max</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Have greeted her slight spirit</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Or told her it was time to depart?</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-60435131793856024342024-03-25T04:25:00.000-07:002024-03-25T04:25:44.424-07:00POSSESSIONS<p></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Though the god of poverty's pockets have</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Holes in them he never lacks things<br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Of no use to him or to anyone</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chipped marbles, bent nails, inkless pens,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The key to a house that burned down in 1946</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A picture of that house with a dead man</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Smiling on the porch and a dead woman</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Looking out from an upstairs window.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-55080484954545152192024-03-22T04:27:00.000-07:002024-03-22T04:27:53.909-07:00RETURNING<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Long ago someone gave me</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A <span class="il">Buddha</span>. He's green and about</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Three-fifths of an inch tall and</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Easily lost. Fortunately</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He can take care of himself</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And always turns up again</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">His left hand saying welcome</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">His right saying no fear.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-89570940296181686272024-03-20T04:25:00.000-07:002024-03-20T04:25:23.434-07:00NEAR THE SHORE<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Scrawny, half-grown gods</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Used to haunt the sails of ships</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Doing well or woe to sailors -- a knot</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Made double-tight, a patch that held,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">New canvas that tore when the wind blew.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">They taunted the cats, killed the rats</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And fed on oaths and tales and smoke</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">From banked fires. Some of them now</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">With a knack for it haunt trading houses</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Leading numbers astray and making winds rise</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In corridors where no winds should be.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-90493985065930437482024-03-18T04:28:00.000-07:002024-03-18T04:28:47.427-07:00CONGREGATING<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Angel of Death, having a rough night,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Was none too pleased to find Max</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Attended by Thuisko, Tzontemoc, Hermes,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Maeve, Libitina, two of the Nameless Ones</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And a <span class="il">banshee</span> (A <span class="il">banshee</span> of all things!<br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He hadn't seen one in years.) A wayoob</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Was taking Max's pulse; the <span class="il">banshee</span>,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stirring something that kept changing color,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Looked willing to stir forever. Hermes,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">One of the Nameless, Maeve and Libitina</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Were playing cards; Hermes called</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Take a hand! Libitina's just playing</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">To be polite; she doesn't know the rules."</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-71050970460193227142024-03-15T04:25:00.000-07:002024-03-15T04:25:44.625-07:00TALKING TO KIKO<p> </p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">I say "Dog,<br /></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">"If I die and T. S. Eliot</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Buries me in his garden</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Will you dig me up again?"</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">(That T. S.! Always<br /></span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Etherizing folk on tables</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Or burying them in gardens</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">)</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">"How deep we talking?"</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Asks <span class="il">Kiko</span>. "I am, after all,</span></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">A very small dog and </span></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Quicksand; font-size: medium;">Easily distracted."</span></b></div>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-59757713988970120082024-03-13T04:25:00.000-07:002024-03-13T04:25:56.032-07:00REVENANT<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A ghost <span dir="ltr">at 10:30</span> on a cold morning</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stands on the memory of</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">His left foot since he can no longer</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Remember his right one clearly.</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He thinks he was fond of it</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">But it's no use; he only manifestS</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What he recalls precisely.</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">(It's fortunate he stared so much</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In mirrors; he'd feel foolish with no nose.)</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He hops off, stopping at corners, </span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Waiting for lights to turn green</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Though what harm could cars do him now?</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Since he can't recall why he's come back</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He begs forgiveness from everyone he sees</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who's wearing a hat; he forgives the hatless</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Unless they also wear gloves in which case</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He whispers </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Some things cannot be forgiven!"</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-8570271786559159522024-03-11T04:26:00.000-07:002024-03-11T04:26:34.569-07:00STATIONS<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">One morning the train to work was rerouted</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">No Plandome. No Great Neck. No Auburnadale</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nor Woodside, where all must change.<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tus there was and Merv, Samarcand, and Balkh and Bukhara.</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The conductors promised we would eventually</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Reach Penn Station but I detrained at Nishapur</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Famous for its pots, its grapes and its wines and</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">For Omar Khayyam who wrote about them.</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">No one here speaks English and it seems to be</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Only a few hundred years after the Hejira</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Say, 1150 by my reckoning. I get by;</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">People here are used to lost men; we have our own</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Burial association, a flag and a rousing anthem.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-51784295764953546542024-03-08T04:21:00.000-08:002024-03-08T04:21:34.865-08:00CHOICE<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Great Aunt Mabel, who was thin and</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">As sharp as four needles</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Married soft, kind-hearted Azie</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This was fortunate. Had she chosen Joe,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">My grandfather -- a twice-bitten soul</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who reserved always the option</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Of turning sideways and disappearing --</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Great cities might now be dust and smoke.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-81822418177682763412024-03-06T04:27:00.000-08:002024-03-06T04:27:02.690-08:00VISITOR<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Before she was a death spirit the banshee</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Was a washerwoman so, as a professional,</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">She glanced at the hospital sheets on the bed</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Where Max was taking his time dying. "Pfoo," she said </span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">(In Galitzianer Yiddish, though Max had, over the years. </span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Picked up a fair amount of Gaelic) "a speckled hen</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Would feel shame dying in such ill-washed sheets;</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wait you here -- I'll have a word with them in the laundry."</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-41509630945187377472024-03-04T04:26:00.000-08:002024-03-04T04:26:27.666-08:00PSYCHOPOMP<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Superbly fat and self-assured Old Mercury</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rarely flies now though the tiny wings</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">On his hat and soft-sided boots still function.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">His days are spent looking after his investments</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And his nights drinking with thieves. As part</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Of his plea-bargain he acts as a pro bono</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Guide to Hell. For a fantastic fee, it's said,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He'll smuggle souls back to life, leaving them</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">At Charing Cross, with forged papers and car fare.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-53966079344457296592024-03-01T04:26:00.000-08:002024-03-01T04:26:05.041-08:00ATTIRE<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the Victoria and Albert Museum</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is a glossy hat that has waited</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">For its true owner to return </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Since 1910. It's half-promised</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">When this happens to plead</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">For the liberation of a pair</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Of fawn-colored spats last worn</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In 1896, at a society wedding.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-52411644184231708542024-02-28T04:25:00.000-08:002024-02-28T04:25:32.711-08:00STILL, A GOD<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Turn the god of poverty</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="il">Upside</span> <span class="il">down</span> he remains</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The god of poverty nor</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Will he be surprised that,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Though a god, he is subject</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">To such indignities. <br /></span></p>
shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-83221948776640953122024-02-26T04:26:00.000-08:002024-02-28T04:24:26.792-08:00SHONAGON'S DEMON<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">It was reported that</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">There was a <span class="il">demon</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the main room</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Of the palace. At first</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">There was some upset</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pairs of guards walked</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The corridors some</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wearing tall hats, others</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Twanging bowstrings.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Towards dusk someone</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ordered food; the <span class="il">demon</span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent word that dumplings</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">And a glass of wine</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Might be an agreeable way</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">To begin negotiations.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-32154726937103514992024-02-23T08:01:00.000-08:002024-02-23T08:01:05.758-08:00EH -- A LIVING<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: Merriweather;">The god of poverty, himself</i></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: Merriweather;">Desperately poor, survives </i></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: Merriweather;">On the pittance he gets for being</i></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: Merriweather;">The god of wealth’s shadow</i></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26.4px;"><br /><br /></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-76731413742313152092024-02-21T04:31:00.000-08:002024-02-21T04:31:45.640-08:00WITNESSES<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Though everyone knows the Abbe</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And the Countess have long</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Been lovers, for the sake</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Of discretion when they walk</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In her ordered garden a footman</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Follows ten feet behind, sweeping</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The ground, erasing all </p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Evidence of their passing. If I were</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To join them their ghosts would</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Startle, deeming me impertinent </p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But I think the footman might welcome</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A bit of company. We'd try to guess</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The words we can't hear.</p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-79410933343864499622024-02-19T05:14:00.000-08:002024-02-19T05:14:39.102-08:00CLARIFICATION<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You are not the first to ask but</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I'm not Mary; I'm Yashoda and this</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Infant at my breast isn't Jesus but Khrishna.</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Stay If you're in the market for a miracle</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My boy may be of some use to you.</p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-14625568043738795382024-02-16T04:30:00.000-08:002024-02-16T04:31:15.644-08:00EXCHANGE<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I thought, my father says,</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That being dead releases one</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From all responsibilities. </p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">God, shrugging, says,</p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now we know different.</p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-68466530112213118272024-02-14T04:22:00.000-08:002024-02-14T04:22:49.857-08:00TARA WHO COMES IN TEN COLORS<p> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I thought to introduce my mother</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To Tara who grants protection</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From eight great perils including</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Pirates and mad elephants but found</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They were already acquainted.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There used to be, my mother said,</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Many raging elephants and more</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Than a few pirates strutting</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Through Patchogue -- this was before </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You were born. Why do you think</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I grew up to be so <span class="il">durable</span>?</p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-80437206891632550442024-02-12T04:24:00.000-08:002024-02-12T04:24:53.834-08:00OCCUPATION<p> </p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">When the Annunciation Angel drops by, Mary</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Is often depicted reading a book though</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">When most of these pictures were painted</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Female literacy wasn't common. Still, I suppose,</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">She needs to be shown doing something --<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Something that can be gracefully set aside</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">With perhaps a flower hastily put as a mark</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">In a story she'll never return to. She could, perhaps,</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Have been shown making puppets but that</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Might seem a bitter commentary on her fate.</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;"><span class="il">Juggling</span> dishes or eggs? Opportunities enough</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">For an ingenious painter but think of the crash</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">If the angel startled her! Or, if she caught her eggs</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Or dishes or (if she'd rare talent in the <span class="il">juggling</span> line)</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Her eggs <i>and </i>her dishes, where to put them down?</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">It won't do for her first words to God's messenger to be<br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">"Here -- hold these for a moment, would you?"</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-46537619283058727682024-02-09T04:24:00.000-08:002024-02-09T04:24:13.279-08:00FROM BOTTICELLI<p> </p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Mary and the angel bow</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">To each other. The angel </span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Thinks "How calmly she takes</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">This astonishing news!" Mary</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Thinks "He spoke his lines well!</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Is this, I wonder, a time to ask</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">If being the Mother of God</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Will entitle me to wings? If so,</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Large or discreet? White? Blue? Gold? </span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Or maybe rainbow or something</span></p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Radiantly viridescent?"</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-54042154827913825192024-02-07T04:32:00.000-08:002024-02-07T04:32:03.221-08:00DRAWING<p> </p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Survivors of a shipwreck, some with wings,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Clamber onto shore. A winged horse -- not Pegasus --</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Is tied to a small tree that believes it's a palm.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Two winged men --was there a sale on wings? --</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Wear hats and argue over a length of rope. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">The figures and the rocks seem French or Italian;</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">The tree to the right, though, is Hiroshige's. It's plain</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">These trees, rocks, horse and men are all castaways</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">From other drawings, waiting to be rescued. Meanwhile,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">They've kept an open space in the middle distance</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">In case Mt. Fuji should appear turning them all</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Into citizens of an ukiyo-e.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-81383056442480451882024-02-05T04:19:00.000-08:002024-02-05T04:19:40.414-08:00ONE MORE ANNUNCIATION<p> </p><p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">The painter Memling sighs;</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">They've sent, for this Annunciation,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">An apprentice angel who is just</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Getting started in the trade. </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">The Mary, experienced and kind,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Gives him his cues and does her best</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">To look, once more astonished. Above her<br /></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">A bleached raven pretends to be a dove.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Two younger angels crowd in. The one </span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">With green wings stares fascinated</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">At Mary's robe, fingering the fabric.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">The pink winged one looks at the painter</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Kefa; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Kefa-Regular;">Solemnly, daring him to laugh.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-773959311581666519.post-26880768497940285952024-02-02T04:24:00.000-08:002024-02-02T04:24:16.585-08:00IN CALIFORNIA<p><span style="font-size: large;">Cold sunlight moving slowly <br />
Downhill, breaking itself<br />
Apart to cross a stream<br />
Reforming to move —<br />
More briskly now —<br />
Towards two crows discussing <br />
Something in a parking lot.</span></p>shrewsburyclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08118014520766063475noreply@blogger.com0