Sunday, May 26, 2013

IF I COULD

The prompt is "luscious

    IF I COULD
    I would live on words
    would chew grainy words like pumpernickel, lick
    slick words that slide against the tongue
    and melt like lilikoi 
    luscious Hawaiian ice-upon-a-stick.
    Nor would I live on food words only
    but feast on all the savory
    flavored dictionary words
    the meaty ones like buxom and contemplate 
    seasoned with peppery sprinkles
    of quip and tipple 
    and I would nibble the edges
    of flat round cookies of extrapolate, reforestation
    and tickle my palette with perfumed words:
    Aldebaran, oriental, satin.

    I would open my Webster's Unabridged
    and grow fat on specious, unadulterated, irresolute.
    Never, never would I grow hungry.

    I would give thanks to the great god Gutenberg
    and lay me down to sleep
    after I sip a soothing drink brewed from
    soporific, subliminal, and seraphim
    and I will dream of books and libraries
    burgeoning with sustenance. 

    Sunday, May 5, 2013

    Fuzzy Memory

    The
    prompt 
    is
    fuzzy



                   FUZZY MEMORY
    (WHY I WAS NOT A CONTESTANT
                    ON JEOPARDY)

       My mind has a million niches for
       odd bits of soteric lore.
       It's not the storage that I lack
       but just means to fish them back!