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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

ON LAKE SEBAGO

I wobble, thump and slosh and buckle till I'm sitting, legs extended snug inside the slender kyack resting still on slushy gravel. I heave my bulk a few times forward, grating graceless till the bow goes weightless and the silence whispers "There you are - you're floating free!" I paddlescoop a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 4, 2011

NEW TAKE ON AN OLD IDEA - a haiku

Assisi's Francis: "Preach the gospel at all times - use words, if needed." Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

WEIGHT MANAGEMENT AMONG THE CANNIBALS - a haiku

"You are what you eat." Surgeon General recommends: Just eat small people. Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 24, 2011

THE FLIRT

" And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson..." - Paul Simon Now and then a former girl* will sometimes stop and ask herself, "Do I still have it, even now?" To find out, she will play the game, and play she does, make no mistake. She's married, had her kids, plays tennis; secure, she'll deftly wait a beat,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Piedmont Airways Flight to Charlotte

... keeps poker face as jetway at its ear whispers passengers aboard. Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 30, 2011

YET ANOTHER HAIKU DEFINITION

a HEEL: common noun - dude who asks his date to do the breakfast dishes Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

ANOTHER HAIKU DEFINITION

KINdred - compound noun - early Anglo-Saxon root: fear of your in-laws Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

BUILDING SAND CASTLES

The castle never wins, of course, but build it anyway. And build it where the building's best - down by the water's edge, for damp and death's its element. Scoop the moat that fills so fast, fist and drizzle sandy mud to make small cones along the wall - stoic guards whose only task is to witness... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 18, 2011

BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU'RE VISITING

Descending someone else's staircase into unaccustomed dark, you stamped your last step on a landing that arrived a step too soon. The world that you'd assumed was there just got corrected suddenly - a world you'd made, all unaware, believed with all your heart. Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 13, 2011

A SUMMER STORM FROM FIVE FLIGHTS UP - revised ending

Come, end the hazy sweaty stillness of this August swelternoon, You Whitestone Bridge in Queens! Come send the Bronx some weather! Uh-oh. Stormscud swifting low and fast races overhead dimming, cooling all. Doors slam with wind, and papers scutter circles in the alley and then stop. Bushy whiteside... Sign in to see full entry.

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