Day's Last Adventure

Sprawled out on the floor,
Adventures unfold in book
-reading, then dreamland.

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Rain Reflection

Summer morning rain,
Breeze brings some on porch with tea,
-evergreens through mist.

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Afternoon Meditation

Summer rain on roof,
Watching clouds and time go by
-swinging porch hammock.

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Dinnertime!

Summer means porch time,
And mosquito Thanksgiving
-the feast is on me!

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Sweet Deams

Slipping off to sleep,
Vivaldi's summer playing
-dreaming of Benton.

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Moving Day Blues #2

I didn't have much stuff,
Until the day of the move
-then I found mountains.

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Boiling Mad

Principal's Office
by Edward S. Gault

We knew we were finished.
Mr. Dingleberry was really going
to lean into us
(he was generally given to
old fashioned fundamentalist style
rants and tirades;
mercy and charitable ecumenism
not being his forte).
Someone had narc-ed.
So we had come clean
about what we had done
with Shiela's purse-
but ol' Dingle was more ticked
about the can of ripe eggs
in the boiler room!

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One Single Impression: Fragrance

Moving Day Blues

Packing for the move,
A neverending labor
-curse of sisyphus.

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Passages

Old high school yearbooks,
Sitting on shelf for decades
-voices of the dead;
time to recycle these now,
my old self died long ago.

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On A Roll

Writing in carol,
Surrounded by vast bookshelves
-ambiance not seen.

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Overworked Underpaid Dept.

Boss ordered project,
We worked tails off through night,
-boss said: do over;
Now due at two fiftynine,
Air conditioner broke down.

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Pirate Daycare

Children lining up,
Their small bowels overflowing
-booty of porage;
Long John Silver in kitchen,
Captain Hook dishing out shares.

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