ㅁ Stress shows up, settles in, uninvited. My gut ties itself up in baroque knots.
– a tetractys.
ㅁ Black ravens swirled like storms congregated. They'd found something they wanted to discuss.
– a tetractys.
ㅁ Sun shone down, but the light wasn't summer's: the afternoon sun's angle has shifted now.
– a tetractys.
ㅁ Words start slow, tumble out... then suddenly: whole sentences spill out like a burst pipe.
– a tetractys.
ㅁ gifts given bought and sold dull detritus these physical things imbued with meaning
– a tetractys.
ㅁ storm brings rain and some wind waves on the sea rivulets run, all gray and muddy brown
– a tetractys.
ㅁ Still, at ease, looking out, stolid, alert, the eagle parked herself on the pier's railing.
– a tetractys.
ㅁ Sol invicto yace suelto duerme ya detrás de nubes. Viento nos sugiere cambios. Lentamente mar se sube.
– una tirada en métrica romance.
ㅁ I woke too early, couldn't sleep. Well, sometimes that's my fate. I rose and found some food to eat. Now, five AM seems late.
– a quatrain in ballad meter.
ㅁ The world was like a circus tent, performers left and right. The problem at this show, you see: you're stuck there, barred from flight.
– a quatrain in ballad meter.
ㅁ The dog set forth his arguments by barking at the car. The car ignored his attitude and drove off fast and far.
– a quatrain in ballad meter.
ㅁ The rain arrived to end the dust, the birds took it in stride; the slugs jumped out into the grass, to take a little slide.
– a quatrain in ballad meter.
ㅁ labor attached to land real-life geofiction machines to move the stones and dirt change things
– a cinquain.
ㅁ So Richard told me 'bout when Joe... he had a "riggin' fit": it happens when a thing don't work, so you get mad at it
– a quatrain in ballad meter.