-Sunny Vignettes-
The sun plays doubles on a clay court, while I open. Condensation marches an upheaval- sun closes blinds. Thumbs on antipasto plate scraping crumbs into trash. Sun rafters support only dust, contractors worry. Place the eggs next to the watermelon. Wait, leave them in the basket. Wary of its reflection, sun shatters ocean in disgust. Orders tequila. She wears plaid and is not afraid of overalls. A flat tire and we are baffled by the carjack. Sun dry is tamer than the sundry it sunders. Can’t carry a sun with only crash cymbals. Oak branches crease and fold effulgent origami. Coffee is sun’s shadowself only warming inward. His galoshes and duckprint boxers. +40 Share...
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I am staring at a squirrel tail that does not move. She squats on the branch five minutes looking the same uninteresting direction. Like she was trying to remember if stream beds have sheets. I think they do, but only at night when the lamps are on and you can see current smoothing out creases and groping in the dark for an afghan. Maybe squirrel is reliving that one time when Sherri was over and dropped half her bagel. Her plastic plate had divots all around the edge, but they weren’t for stopping gravity on baked goods. The squirrel jerked more then, and was crumb eager. Now squirrel is drawing an analogue with the facial muscles of Keanu Reeves. There might be two expressions but this movie only has the first one. Eventually she resumes, like a paused DVD...
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