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Winds Attributed To A Tornado
The house is ____ down, of course.
Impervious ______ _______ connected,
despite ________ breaks in the light.
Billy's portrait
a side view of his ______,
was found beneath Laura's _______
and other ______ of cloth.
Everyone else is accounted for
except the dog that ran off.
It ______ preferred
the fabulous to the faithful.
God’s Simple Peculiarities
Three pilgrims _______ on a low hill
at ten meters _______ sea level.
A marker assembled by engineers
informs them this is so.
Endemic ______ implies otherwise.
Embellished outlines of two large boulders
and a huge ______ standing
resemble the veritable _____ and _____.
Seldom does truth act as _______.
Egregious Aggregates
A burning deck of cards
set alight by a fat cigar
does not dissuade the players,
dogs in various degrees of attire.
The train was just now
stopping at the last station.
The pot is reflectious
high card wins all.
Outside a hovering drone
disguised as a pigeon,
right down to its beeping coo
is the hands down winner.
Sent forth from sagacious prosperity,
it hangs extramurally
in the smallest of air.
The Gods Have Escaped
The cloud hovered perpetually
over the inlet's wake,
best keep an eye on it.
Innocence transforms innocently or
assumptions make the most sense.
At this moment on the opposite shore,
survivalists are launching a boat.
This is like catching a break,
we're usually well into
the liturgy by now.
An Abdicator’s Apprehension
I'm purchasing a lawn sculpture for your mother.
That's what she said she wanted,
maybe something that chimes in the wind.
An anime echo of reoccurrence
voices in the background, hot whispers.
Something big like Godzilla
being pestered by colorful ethics
all those little campy hats.
I will do the right thing
and support the local art scene.
Discussions with a former welder are ongoing.
His attitude is openly suspicious.
"Explain what you mean by hectic relaxation?"
He promises to think things through
but may not commit as we have envisioned.
An expert at burning metal,
puckish in his incorporeality.
Epic Cures
If all sensations are true
then I have got to get going
on my validated theoretics.
The strong man entered the house
without being invited and easily
picked up the couch
with me still on it.
He said he was just
trying to make a point,
then left peacefully.
For a few moments
I sensed enlightenment
but could no longer languidly
reach the remote clicker.
It seems modern meditative techniques
require insoluble soliloquies,
explanations of cable fees,
and loyalties until now,
never intended to be spoken of.
Colin James has a couple of chapbooks of poetry published. Dreams Of The Really Annoying from Writing Knights Press and A Thoroughness Not Deprived of Absurdity from Piski’s Porch Press and a book of poems, Resisting Probability, from Sagging Meniscus Press. He lives in Massachusetts, United States, with two cats, Dorothy and Jane.
