the butterfly jinks. its pursuer holds the line. i blink; they're gone.
Butterfly Dogfight [Haiku]
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Elephantine Baobab [Free Verse]
It's called Hatiyan-ka-Jhad because it looks like a huddled herd of elephants -- not only in its corpulence but also with its rough, gray skin. So rotund at its base that it's hard to figure how its slowly slimming upward taper can come to twiggy ends, and not be a mile tall. The branches are overly muscular, like a bodybuilder who got carried away, moving from strong and vigorous into the domain of science fiction mishap. It has its own mythology -- multiple creation tales about how its seed got from Madagascar to the middle of India half a millennium ago: tales of fakirs and royal envoys. It's even been said that the Forty Thieves, the ones who tormented Ali Baba, used its hollow as their cache cave. But it refuses to respond to "Open Sesame" -- so I guess we'll never know.
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Tree of a Thousand Twigs [Free Verse]
When monsoon rains soaked the soil, that old tree toppled. They cut it out of the roadway, & I went out to count its rings, but found it not with hundreds of rings, but hundreds of trunks -- many no more than twigs. What a mighty tree a pile of twigs pressed together can make, & now it's gone.
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Sneak Peak [Haiku]
the chipmunk flattens, crawling atop battlements as if to glimpse foes
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Buffalo Horn Limerick
There was a funny buffalo named Stitches whose horns bent back like malformed glitches. "Some horns are for goring and others for warring, but mine are for inaccessible itches."
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Baya Weaver [Haiku]
plump dangling nests of baya weavers are ceaselessly revamped
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High Tide Island [Haiku]
the high tide island is a rocky outcrop when waters retreat
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Prospero’s Limerick
There once was a bookish Duke from Milan
who, while distracted, was played for a pawn.
They thought him a twerp
his Dukedom was usurped…
Eventually, brains won out over brawn.
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Customer Service Limerick
There once was a customer service rep
who spoke with a smile and great pep.
“That’s not my department,
but prepare for bombardment:
Your refund in twenty-six random steps.”
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Cowbell [Haiku]
the cow barely moves, and yet its clang is constant from tugging dry grass
Tiger Riding for Beginners 