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her last clarinet

more people have laughed at jazz

than I have

#senryu

AN IDEA OF IMPROVISATION WITH SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS

“The piano ain’t got no wrong notes” Thelonious Monk

Had Noam only known

where a queen bee sometimes brooks

any lack within her blackness

even as she springs 

towards something closer 

to emerald, sea foam, or moss—

not just phonetically before nightfall

as a fiddling to fight

or perhaps most aptly 

even to flamenco 

any late flowers—

he might could’ve heard or seen how

“colorless green ideas sleep furiously”

between.

Quiet As it’s Kept

The black rabbit hole as poem. Inside find four homonyms, three acrostics, two hidden names, one cross. Who said one of the biggest problems with genius level poems is that they require genius level readers? Which means some assembly required. A double ekphrastic linking two literary works of art by different authors that share a title. Did one of them inspire the other?  Eleven lines of literary criticism if you will. Find both authors named. Let’s play!

Warning—do not enter this portal high on shrooms or maybe do.