
Alphabet Primer

essays, poems, cartoons – since 2007
A beastly catechism
dog eared brown cat
drenched frozen
green halo.
I just kwikzilver
looked.
Mighty nice
mice nook.
Opening opinion pending
please query
queue quorum.
Run straight
toward universe
vast wobbly.
Exit your zero.
ant arpeggios ascending across apples |
bassoons beached |
catalytic converter clanking clanking clanking |
dogwood drowning |
each easy |
fustian frolic |
guitar gig |
hot heavy hair |
itch it | juxtaposition | kissing kangaroos | loose |
monumental moment | neononesuch | operatuneditty | pick pick pick |
quick quote | roach run |
saturnalia socks |
tunnel tumult |
umbrella | vexed virago | waddle will | exegesis |
you’re yours | zone |
zero |
zonk |
Apropos pickle
Butte barely there in tumbleweed distance
Colloquial circus on edge of town
Drab hard rust
Emergent sea
Fish scale sliver
Glass stippled bass dress
Hercules sleeping like a cat
I don’t know slick
Just relax
Kairos
Let there be dark
Maroon full of water
Noun ironing board
Oh peel up
Preen winged words
Quick thick sailboats pass across a canvas
Red banal rose
Startled pimientos brush along a landscape
Thesis slope mint
U-pick raspberry squeeze
Very faraway pink
White lime yellow summer clouds
X marks tableau vivant spot
Yield sudden silk
Zeus striped sock lint
A beast abuzz amidst the clovers: A is for Always Anxiously
Bees besieged in Beelzebub’s circles: B is for Bunched Bop
Ceding the bee’s sting: C is for Cut Care
Denuded dazed drone doodle: D is for Drilled Daffodil Dust
Each easy flower glowers, going crazy: E is for Eating Earwigs
Felled flies found in forged gyre: F is for Flounder Flour
Grease hopping aground bottom: G is for Goaded Garlic Gear
Heliotrope: H is for Standing Erect at High Noon
M ss ng n Act on: I is for Idling Slowly Down the Mississippi River
Jived, joed, and jellied: J is for Jump to Comments
Kitchen kelp: K is for Krilling
Los Angeles lovers afloat: L is for Lost in Ballona Creek Lowlands
Moneyed, honeyed, and schooled: M is for Marriage
Nonesuch wiser the nuncio nun: N is for Nauseous Napkins at High Tide
Only one occupied optative mood phone booth: O is for Obnoxious Ontology
Peeing peregrine on ice plant spears: P is for Pilled Paper Piece Work
Queued quacks: Q is for Quick Quiz
Read in rows: R is for Rubric Rust
Sew seven scarves: S is for Subsumed Existential Snow
T is for Tremulous Titbirds Telling Mother Father Will Be Late
Undertow: U is for Until Unction Snore
Vexed voice: V is for Verisimilitude
Who When What Where Why: W is for Wasted Window Father Watch
X’s not and no O’s
Yellow harrow and black and yellow bumblebees: Y is for Yielded Yelp
Zonked zone: Z is for zooming in and zooming out, buzzing, zooming, walking, talking, doodling at poems, scratching names with dates in wet concrete, riding the bus to the metropolitan zoo