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Another Day
renku sequence
another long day
on the cricket pitch
swatting bush flies
owzat! the youth roused
from his doze on the couch
the psychiatrist listens
opens my past
for the future
sepia snapshots fall
from the family album
a red moon spliced
by naked beech trees
along the driveway
following yon highway
to wherever it leads
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a piper piping
her songs so sultry
sirens might sing
e-harmonies
in raging optic fibers
who coulda thought
a virus would rule
in the world of love?
still counting the dead
five years on, shock and awe
tender young herbs
flavour the oils
for which we cook our gooses
too hot to handle!
those toddler’s tantrums
starring
Elizabeth Taylor
in ‘The Taming of the Shrew’
steaming matsutake
a feast for the queen
so camply
we parade our pride
and the moonshine stills
a fresh load of turf
and poteen before five
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fitter
than a thousand fiddlers
on top of everest
we’ve come a long, long way
my body and I
inconvenient truths —
slogans on my breasts
upset the clergy
springtime warms our globe
with showers of acid rain
weeping
furry pussy willows
along the river bank
one by one the stars
wink out the Milky Way
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by Moira Richards (italicized portions) and Barbara A. Taylor
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