Ace of Spades: Limerick
Miss Day complains she never knows why her boyfriend called her Wild Rose. By any other name she’d smell just the same as her tissues begin to necrose. Un printemps une grande hirondelle, sauta de la...
View ArticleQueen of Hearts: Why?
Why are there poodles? Why are there cats? Why are there Bellan wrasse? Cross-breeding of oodles For eating of rats To boost ocean biomass Why are there leatherbacks? Why is there beer? Why is there...
View ArticleFive of Clubs: Juratron Park
If you pine for the mystery before Noah’s ark we’ve remade prehistory at Juratron Park. Come atoms, come molecules, See what you were back then. Come out for a frolic, you’ll spin unperturbed again....
View ArticleAce of Clubs: The Island
She skipped from stone to stone across the stream, each stepping stone subsiding with her stride. No tears for trampled islands, she was on the other side. In comfort, and in loneliness, she mused...
View ArticleQueen of Diamonds: Crossing Over
I look up to the sky in search of you, to sunlight that you hide your soul above. You’re on the other side, in heaven’s crown, in happiness, but I, in longing, weep. It’s lonely here relying on myself...
View ArticleEight of Diamonds: The Village of Silver
Although many stories end up coming full circle, the first step is always finding a few good lines to lead into it. The steps are too steep for me to climb, I will wait and watch. All the best pictures...
View ArticleFive of Diamonds: Countdown
I’m ninety eight years old, and I am dying. I’ll do the things I still have time to do. I’ll grab life and I’ll dance, for I will not have the chance to do the rest before I rest I knew that in...
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