What happened to the days when we danced on the beach in long gowns? You, your sister, a friend and I, the last one to try the cold touch of the ocean surge. No one cared about the sand in our lace or the wetness on our carefree soles. No one spoke as we spun around faster and faster until holding on we fell still spinning without our feet on the ground.
Light
and
dark
line
or
design
sun
in
Africa
shine
on
me
Perhaps I will go back
and tip Gregario another 50 pesos
for all the wonderful times he yelled
“Vamonos!”
and “Terrapin!”
and then went under
heading straight to the bottom
of the Caribbean
finger pointing
Saul on the road to Damascus
after hearing and seeing Stephen
stoned to death
with orders from the high priest
Saul the Hebrew doing God’s will
all the study with Gamaliel
his work as a Pharisee
knowledge of the law
on the road to Damascus
to bind the Jesus followers
and bring them to Jerusalem
Saul blinded and fell to the ground
“Saul, why do you persecute me?”
the urgent stop
“Is that You Lord”
“What do You want me to do?”
The posture of the dollhouse mom is alway perfect in a stern upright way with clothes that come out of a catalog. She always wants children and something to do with them when she gets them. The activities come out of the catalog along with an instruction manual for having fun with your kids. The dollhouse kids are always busy in the dollhouse doing their chores and planning to surprise the dollhouse dad when he enters the dollhouse after a long day at work and commuting to and from his employment. His work makes the dollhouse possible and they know it. The kids work to keep their toys off the floor so that dollhouse dad does not trip and fall, breaking a leg and making it impossible to go to work. Dollhouse mom loves to make new recipes in the dollhouse kitchen keeping the dollhouse family healthy with the basic food groups. Dollhouse dad has his liquor bottle hidden somewhere in the dollhouse where the dollhouse mom cannot find it. Dollhouse mom prefers dollhouse dad to be sober so that the dollhouse can be perfect in every way.
by Francis Ponge, translated by Jane Swanson
The oyster is the size of an average stone yet rougher in appearance and less in color, brilliantly white. It is a world tightly closed.
Yet it can be opened and it must be held in the hollow of a cloth, using a knife and slightly chipped open, you try several times. Curious fingers cut into it, breaks nails, such a crude work. The blows are marks on the door of the shell, white and round, making a kind of halos.
Inside we find a whole world to eat and to drink under a pearly sky with heavens from both above and heavens from below, while forming a pond, and a viscous green bag which ebbs and flows with smell and sight, fringed on the edges with black lace.
Sometimes a very rare formula for pearl is deep in the throat of pearliness, which we immediately adorn ourselves with.
When the oyster gets an irritation
it wraps itself around the cause
secretes its own cure
and creates a thing of beauty
inside of itself
like when Jesus said
we must forgive seventy times seven
the oyster forgives its intruders
and caresses them in salty liquor
until there are as many as 51
another oyster has 80 some
and this is not an exaggeration
the world’s record
of oyster forgiveness
amazing all who see it!
Franklin, Tennessee Woman bites into an oyster at Puckett’s Boat House and finds 51 pearls 4/6/15
a playable Scrabble word
if someone has put down ant
now with your six tiles
you can play the word
sycophant
a person who acts obsequiously toward someone important in order to gain advantage
spell sycophant
(nice spelling bee word)
use it in a sentence please
That politician was a sycophant.
you spell sycophant and win
obsequious
obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
(another great spelling bee word)
spell obsequious
a sentence please
He was only obsequious to God.
Fall asleep in the cargo hold
you are suppose to be loading the baggage
Just a little nap you say
a little nap in the cargo hold
no one will ever know
They close the door
plane wheels out of the gate
rolls towards the runway
revs up for the takeoff
all that noise wakes you up
You are trapped in the cargo hold
with all that baggage
lucky for you it is pressurized
you can breath
and the temperature isn’t that bad!
How can you stay the course
maybe sneak out on landing
(but how will you get back
you will certainly have to pay out of pocket
but no one will know your folly)
Return to sleep or return to Seattle
now you feel desparate
start banging on the cargo hold
keep banging until someone hears
and changes the course of the flight
Alaskan Airlines Flight 448 bound for Los Angeles 4/13/15
silver sand in the morning
no footsteps
only one on the beach
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