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Feb 29 · 130
Sparkling Thru Wishbones
Onoma Feb 29
a relative hoist--

& a panning frame.

airport birds sparkling

thru wishbones.
Onoma Feb 29
a galleon flares its

gills, while under the

influence of momentous

pushes.

as if the overburdened

menace of its structure--

lurks after the conquest

that kept it afloat.

dimly pronounced to an

increasingly anxious shore.
Feb 29 · 59
A Lion in His Basement
Onoma Feb 29
who doesn't like a tablecloth

whose interim offers a hand

of marinara sauce--

familia style, sighing before

a spread?

Joe Gallo face-planting a

rhetorical question outside

of: Umberto's Clam House.

he dug beat poetry...

& keeping a lion in his

basement.
Feb 28 · 43
A Variegated Necklace
Onoma Feb 28
a variegated necklace is

torn...stuck to its dashes

on a window.

an unseasonably stifled

cry--fast on heels, aching

joints conscripted to the Ides

of March.

three-inch distributions of

scarcely expanded pinpricks.

all aslant, as to the right.
Feb 28 · 69
Monstrous Vivacities
Onoma Feb 28
monstrous vivacities

see a Hippopotamus

in a staunch-white,

short skirt.

with the

papercut-rumples of

a ****** lamp cover.

doing the cha cha,

under a cocktail umbrella.

navy blue, with white polka dots.

on the lip of a shoreline, under

a blazing sun.
Feb 28 · 66
Prewrapped Keyholes
Onoma Feb 28
padlocks giftwrap

antiquated keyholes.

turn/turn/turn.

click.

the kernel of a

Russian Doll

crackles heady--

underfoot.
Feb 28 · 73
Ticklish
Onoma Feb 28
an oxford comma

clears the throat

of a subway staircase--

as a pigeon feather

would.
*Shout out to a goldie, reinspired by: "Oxford Comma"-- the band: Vampire Weekend~
Feb 27 · 139
An Ensilvered Barracuda
Onoma Feb 27
there's an ensilvered

barracuda, seven miles

miles long.

rocking side to side,

beneath

Key West's bridge.

as if a fry, plastic-bagged

in a local pet shop.

verdigris water's teeth.
Onoma Feb 27
branches become

painfully naked,

right before they

reconsider dressing.

there's an almost lensed

concavity down to a

pore--that wriggles like

a stadium popping out

of its eye socket.

too much the witness,

bore.
Feb 27 · 65
Self-supping
Onoma Feb 27
ribs shouldn't know

self-supping, as they're

withdrawn under diadems

of breaking green.
Onoma Feb 26
the blast furnace

of a

carousel--

encrusts the burnt

umber of horses.

with the continual spray

of a crimson outline.
Feb 26 · 52
Charting Poof
Onoma Feb 26
it's not an optical

illusion when you

see a blackbird,

evened by your blink.

as if underlined by a

ruler.

periodism

charting ****.
Feb 26 · 59
Humanoid Eiffel Tower
Onoma Feb 26
a topsy turvy jig

repolished the patinaed

brass.

of a statue lent to liberty.

a humanoid eiffel tower--

with Atlantic hopefuls.

vomiting on her sandals--

here & there.
Onoma Feb 26
an exquisitely wrought

bowl.

brass blown to the upper

echelons of leafage,

curved so.

the snake charmed lazy of

wick-- can cake in the tightrope

of sandalwood wax.

begging traceries  of that

saintly podge.

as these reconnecting digits

softly grind away at those fragrant

intellectualizations.

after caressing the wick.
Feb 26 · 64
A Longish Stem
Onoma Feb 26
an abandoned cellar

sits like a plummeting

freight elevator.

a longish stem sprouts

from the throat of

its operator.
Feb 25 · 93
Sound Books Deluxe
Onoma Feb 25
sound books

deluxe--between

bars, in  

hyper definitions

of air.

frigid enough to

carry a message.

(random observation).

a woodpecker's

vehement bidding,

opposite my window.

on a bough boasting

ole' Dutch planting--

registered,

like the groundwork of

a construction crew.

minus harsh notations.

it was an acoustical

instrumentation--that

demanded a private

audience.
Onoma Feb 25
a golden snail's shell

dithers the string

of its wound top.

as to leak out of that

mean.

with sensitivities

parallel to the sun

coming down with the flu.
Feb 24 · 65
A Village's Earshot
Onoma Feb 24
plainchant's bell,

heavier than

a village's earshot.

spins like a clocktower.

whose candle snuffer

is a widower.

overgiven to pause.

once in longhand, twice

in shorthand.

twice in longhand--once

in shorthand.

familiarities destinate,

right there.
Onoma Feb 22
eight gutted rattlesnakes

neatly wrapped around

a Saguaro Cactus.

bound like a barren

hostage.

extreme temperature

fluctuation installed a

potent strain of darkened

arts.

strobing moths, the breadth

of a baby's open hand--

off the air as quick as their

first debut.

pinned to every needle.
Feb 22 · 186
Twice-place
Onoma Feb 22
Antarktikos...

overlays truing north.

so metaphor can

twice-place.

the embedment of

meaning

before thing~
Feb 21 · 75
Spray Paint Lightbulbs
Onoma Feb 21
as gray is intermission's

supposedly...

pegged with rotted fruits,

& fresher vegetables.

by stagehands that spray

paint lightbulbs of memory.

with enough pressurizations

to loosen them.

so they will eventually

disperse the: Tao.
Feb 21 · 54
A Sample Grid
Onoma Feb 21
a dragnet

comes up--

a sample grid of

shorn simpaticos...

waiting to fit into

the ripples.

of an unreleased

maritime report.

as if fore-harnessed,

by the indisputable

anchor of the Atlantic.
Feb 20 · 66
Helmets That Peer Down
Onoma Feb 20
astroturf--

paving a surreptitious

city.

blowing backups of

spotlight.

without incident.

candy poppies shooting

up.

melting into helmets

that peer down.
Feb 20 · 72
Across a Horsehair
Onoma Feb 20
a quartet

plays across a

horsehair.

(you can't even

see the bow coming).

despite the bloomage

of attendant instruments.
Feb 19 · 73
Dented Ashcan
Onoma Feb 19
a pigeon encasing

its chest.

extends a bassy

trill.

shimmying on the

lid of a dented ashcan.

pecking in & out with:

yellow/red/blue marbles.

(in no particular order).

classic Wonder bread.
Onoma Feb 18
treetops pass their

basket--

light to the nodose

pit of round.

pillared trunks

sprouting into one

another.

come maximums of

height.

contoured chione

apto pnuema...

hand off touches of

wind to the ground.
*Inspired by a revelatory hike~
Feb 17 · 81
Wrong Doorknob
Onoma Feb 17
paces apart--

luminosities meander

as necking streetlights.

cuffed aureoles

hysterical with laughter--

slinking deadpan destinations.

as a delivery person leaves

their mind on the wrong

doorknob.
Feb 17 · 58
An Alaskan Bed
Onoma Feb 17
an Alaskan bed

sprawls out its

mattress--stuffed

with drifting crystals.

unwet by watery ratio--

though made of.

powered dry.

a bed & breakfast phone

rings...(rotary-rude).

after dialing two yrs.

without a pristine snow.
*It seems NYC is being offered a prime cut, of far north--that pristine kind of snowfall, courtesy of February's sweetspot~
Feb 16 · 113
Ululation
Onoma Feb 16
gristle's input--

a tray of glass tupperware.

forgotten leftovers,

on a park table.

animal jello.

a bipedal strikeforce

of wolfen albinism--

on a runner's high.

slathering that gristle

over its body.

during a flashflood of

incremental moons.

picking out whiskers

from the **** end of

witchy chins.
Feb 15 · 83
Golden Sporks
Onoma Feb 15
clay boutonniere

in a kiln.

plague doctors in

beaked masks--

retrieving the semblage

of a carnation.

with golden sporks

the size of spatulas.

split three & a half ways.

prattling beaks.
Feb 14 · 185
Summit Meeting
Onoma Feb 14
Western frontiers

bite early, arisen

colors on the Northeast.

(film development).

a landscape drawn out

flawlessly.

as the Atlantic chants thru

the summit meeting of trees--

baring antlers.

whistling a clap after they're

blown thru.
Feb 14 · 89
Febrewrary
Onoma Feb 14
how mouthy--

& hellbent a month

becomes, in standout

pronunciation.

(despite regional exaction).

consult all other eleven

months--with your tongue.

this one wants you to taste

the winter it overcomes.

into ides.

as shoots noodle outta

Roman baby steps.
Feb 13 · 86
Graft Paper
Onoma Feb 13
a snow globe

in every cube

of graft paper.

bulbous tethers

of blanch

pandemonium.
Feb 13 · 58
Feral Fur Sprouts
Onoma Feb 13
feral fur

sprouts

from a steep.

as fangs

spark

against stones.

trying to drink

them.
Feb 13 · 66
Purple Apple
Onoma Feb 13
a purple apple

keyed gravitas.

striking down on

a windup patch

of snow.

mid-March.

balancing on a

trajectorial seed--

that pierced thru.
Feb 13 · 67
Expecting
Onoma Feb 13
manipulatable ground's

most likely paved over.

country me.

thus far & farther.

let alone was demanded--

by standstills of elevation.

presiding over wishing wells

of trees making valley.

shadowlands, composite

sketches: America.

Queens NY is expecting a

significant snowstorm.

expecting~
Feb 12 · 68
Thick With Tuck
Onoma Feb 12
brambles are

for the

zealotry of

limbs.

black berries

grown thick

with tuck.

rusty blood

shone--as a

whichway

face.
Onoma Feb 11
the sensation of

being observed--

while observing

no particular thing.

magnetic horse-shape

poles, laying & raising

up hair.
Feb 11 · 191
Starlings Watershed
Onoma Feb 11
starlings watershed--

to part their

beaks.

desisting from

compositions of

great anonymity.

their singular obsession.

over Stratford-upon-Avon.
Feb 11 · 81
Specking Drone
Onoma Feb 11
the specking drone of

fluorescent lights

ungrip flies, from

their ribs.

upside down on

neat slabs--that

decide to flicker

a bone.

with hospital

expulsions of light.
Feb 10 · 137
Preparatory Notes
Onoma Feb 10
an overhead

flood

repositions

sandbags--

slack with

genuflecting

preparatory

notes.

water must move.
Onoma Feb 8
a wooden hanger,

picked out.

whose elegant finishes

thicken with sideways

suspension.

the finery of mirrors

coaxing glass into cloth...

as it slips off its shoulders.
Feb 7 · 60
Fisher's Ice Hole
Onoma Feb 7
a grain of sand,

on some desert

night.

decided to expand

just enough.

to become a fisher's

ice hole in the Artic...

on some day.

where it remained

dark.
Feb 7 · 56
Funny Glasses
Onoma Feb 7
Robert Lowell,

in: Pulitzer's Toy Store--

twice the recipient.

of cyclopean bifocals--

funny glasses,

if ever there were.

matched with eyes that

were framed.

uncannily non make believe.

Moby **** leaving the oily

crease marks of his forehead--

thereon.
Feb 6 · 162
Green Study Lamp
Onoma Feb 6
a green study lamp--

the size of a defunct,

underground playhouse.

pulls its chain--

(scintillates of dimes

ferried upward).

opens the

coloriage of curtains with

bags under their eyes.

A Forest relieves the backdrop

of a forest...as leathery tree stumps

twist.
Feb 5 · 114
Maria Callus' Truancy
Onoma Feb 5
as winter cuts

eighth grade chorus

class--

snowflakes dangle

from strings.

doing the same.
Onoma Feb 4
balloons blow bubbles

from their reflecting

temples.

in all kinds of weather--

as children keep them

inflated.

swarming around

exospheres.
Feb 4 · 72
Na Svieni Diavolos
Onoma Feb 4
me proskynesis erchetai

o megalo kyma...

na svieni diavolos.
*For anyone & everyone interested~
Feb 1 · 68
Handle a Broom
Onoma Feb 1
crimes can go very high--

their range is as explicit

as what's been put out.

on this plane.

Karma knows how to

handle a broom.
Feb 1 · 147
Loch ness Monster
Onoma Feb 1
the Loch ness Monster

sidewinds.

extending the shadows

of its neck...underwater.

those shadows won't

wash off, until The Loch

Ness Monster,

pays another visit.
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