THE LAST RECOGNIZABLY HUMAN WEDDING
The registries were stumped
hence the mitten gift pile
knit in seed-bank logos
Earth Day flags:
U.N.-prohibited patterns
of unduly agitating hope
TOAST! TOAST! TOAST!
Like proto-moles, we palm
enormous canning jars:
a high-proof distillate
of root vegetable,
root garni
aloll in silty dregs
Mouth poised in endless joke
from rehearsal soirée,
the sodden bride moues mold
green lipstick
Canapés at aquarium
had promised nostalgic
oppression of others
LUNGFISH BOOM-BOOM!
We tittered at tankmurk,
Deadeye's decades of mateless mire
Now on cue is the Groom
RADISH VODKA!
while nearest the exit -
a face to stop a clock -
sits Death, not well-disguised
as ancient Albanian aunt
She's split, festive/funereal
christening bonnet and black shawl
A canny broad, she'll drink
to anything, even the thumb
HERR KEPLER'S NOTEBOOK
Time is the bully anchor of the opposing tug-rope team.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
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