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Bridge Lockdown
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #589 Words: disrupt, hunt, watch, cut, lockdown, glass, flesh, craft, danger, gathering, challenge, murder Traffic was murder. A lockdown gathering of autos made more of a challenge for drivers stuck on the top ramp … Continue reading
After Ten Years
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #588 Words: manifestations, moment, wraps, broken, stand, shoulder, silence, nearly, powdery, blade, again, shuffle The statue is broken. The shoulder is missing, as if slashed with a blade. Powdery substance lay on the floor. … Continue reading
Chaos in the Castle
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #586 Words: castle, rat, laughs, cash, pass, handle, chatter, scrap, champ, master, glasses, back Chaotic chattering in the walls of the castle. Scampering, scratching, scraps of giggle- laughs, like tinkling of glasses. Things were … Continue reading
Dangerous Cargo
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #585 Words: matter, fly, close, right, resist, drive, oil, boat, shoot, speak, preserve, fire Well shoot. I didn’t know the boat was carryin’ oil. Matter fact, I was might boiled up about it, ‘specially … Continue reading
Follow Stardust Dancing
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #584 Words: stony, stroke, star, follow, scan, body, goddess, slip, grow, dust, moonshine Follow stardust dancing over a moon shining steadily across body of darkened sky. Hear the soft song of a goddess slip … Continue reading
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Tagged imagination, moon, path, song, stardust, Wordle
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Good Fairies Always Come Through
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #583 Words: flush, fairy, breath, safe, hiss, raspy, greedy, soothed, torn, bluff, yellowing, spill An out-of-breath fairy, flushed blush from winding in and out of trees, reached her safe spot, hissed pink, and felt … Continue reading
A Wider Sky
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #582 Words: flow, time, serial, sky, rule, open, heaven, within, channel, beneath, urgently, hell Within a flow of time, under perfect conditions, the sky opens wider, and Heaven is harder to rule out. Yet, … Continue reading
Face to Face
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #580 Words: boys, free, chain, steal, doors, will, games, dead, sea, plead, crave, ledge Stealing a steel chain, an envenomed man freely swings it in an arc across from his boyhood abuser, forced up … Continue reading
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Tagged abuser, confrontation, damage, grown man, Wordle
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The Neglected Building
Written for: The Sunday Whirl, Wordle #579 Words: spin, whirl, creep, slack, stain, crack, curl, grip, light, lord, loom, glimpse, wonder Cracks creep alongside muddy stains. Lighting is poor, occluding curls of dust allowed to whirl into rusted corners of … Continue reading
Long Lunch
Written for: Sunday Whirl, Wordle #578 Words: shake, legendary, style, walks, pretend, break, failed, exhale, wonder, change, choice, chance Her legendary choice of style–shakes hips as she walks. Talks on phone or pretends. Bends in wind of weather’s change in … Continue reading
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