Time Waiting

Of cold floors we don't speak well
But then again they invite us
Well into the minutes of an hour
When the professor's late or sour.

As told by my notebook. As told to it by me while waiting on my, usually timely, professor. Usually I'm late, but the others assure me, nonetheless, that he, indeed, is punctual.

Love's Blunders or The Art of War

kill with your soft words, maim with your harsh ones, this is the prime of humanity, of derision.

Mayor's Woes!

Furious Fervor Felicitously Found Favourable Fanfare: Google Graciously Granted Guaranteed Gateway.

The first alphabet couplet.

Alphabet Song A-E

Alert Attendant Admonishes Absent Accreditation

Blowhard Badminton Baron Burns Bridges

Complacent Comptroller Courageously Cuts Culpability

Dwarfed Dean:
Dazzles Deferring Department
Demonstrates Definite Destaturatization
Dismisses Disgruntled Delinquents
Dodgily Debunks Delinquents Diploma

Earnest English Earl Egregiously Engulfs Enchilada

To Ask an Answer

he asked: ¿qui es?
he answered for her: c'est moi, ma cherie.
he asked: and you?
she answered: ¿qui es?!

not quite a routine, but it rang just so.

Lyopa's Dream

to clue in on the birds' immediate position
he slunk ever so quietly, leaves undisturbed,
as though his ears themselves, from hearing,
would trample upon his quest.

enchanted by

It carried so lazily in the wind, like the long string of a kite left wandering the sky.

The drawl of summer succumbed to the breeze of fall, the leaves succumbed and fell.

An antagonistic fervor rang out through the yards, just deepening the sense.

In weeks, all would be recorded in assigned essays, demoralizing, sealing the fate.

It stole away as a thief into the night.

color me rose

at 5 o'clock you ruled with an iron fist.
at 6 o'clock you asked for your gloves.
at 7 o'clock you were being baron at [your] dinner table.
at 8 o'clock you put the kids to bed.
at 9 o'clock you rested your head.