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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Spuncibl'd Rooner Meets Gad Mardiner

"Doors in Mirrors"
Jude Higgins
acrylic on canvas digitally modified
18" by 24"
     Set aside your Mr. Spock ears and 
don your dog ears. That is, ignoring 
any meanings, listen only to the sound. 
Then, on your second reading...
         
He sought to thaw 
the Krozen phone 
he’d lick'd to brick 
at punch. 

“Hold course, cold horse! 
You’re bag 'n' roan. 
I beer I’m fared...
a scunch.” 

(The rag he know’d -- 
call’d Mal: La Ode 
drop'd dead,
or hose my sunch.)

Of Pontiffs and Potables: A Rhyme Spree

Each verse in the  poem  below selects  from two to four  beverages ("pick'd  poisons"), the  last- mentioned of which  is alw...