"Former Hospital Employee"
Paying
his cable bill
with funds he netted when
pawning wedding rings from a dead
patient. [from the newspaper]
~~~~~
waking myself
and my bunkmate
by dream singing [actual]
~~~~
an east breeze
furling the flag
cooling the swing [actual]
~~~~
"In a Distant Galaxy" (a Sen-News pattern)
the flash: a black hole
sucking in a sun-sized star
that wandered too close [news]
~~~~
"Irony"
Christchurch,
in New Zealand,
scene of yet another
earthquake, trapping two folks inside
a church. [news]
~~~~
"Queen Calico"
'Lizabeth,
by grumbling deep
in her throat when hissing
didn't work, caused a Moor* to back
away. [actual]
* one of the 4 black feral cats who like our catfood
~~~~
early morning
a bird screeches
from downriver [actual:Cherokee Village AR]
c 2011 by Pat Laster, dba lovepat press
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