Insert witty title here

more people have laughed 

at jazz than I have

his plastic sax

#senryu

AN IDEA OF IMPROVISATION WITH SYNTAX & SEMANTICS

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

Today I lay on the lawn

and listened to 88

blades of clover say

had Noam only known

how a queen bee sometimes brooks

no lack to her blooming

even as she springs 

towards something closer 

to emerald, sea foam, or moss—

not just phonetically before nightfall

as if fiddling to fight

or perhaps most aptly 

to flamenco 

any late flowers—

he might’ve seen

“graves grow no green you can use”

and

“colorless green ideas sleep furiously” 

in 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.

EVITATICER

(a disk horse)

read her taijitu tattoo as mirror

eye = wavicle

chiaroscuric 

incubi 

Twin waterfowl yodel Lorain’s art

Apocrypha as opera

Toni hearts the crane echo part

in words alas drown i

forgive as epigraf

(for Chloe & Zadie)