"There Goes the Top of My Head" - a paraphrase of Emily Dickinson’s criteria for recognizing a true poem. Although I've left older posts here about all sorts of topic, for the foreseeable future, this will be my repository for anything literary: book reviews / reactions, writing journal, and any topics related to editing or writing poetry or fiction.
Friday, January 02, 2009
Heartburn
At Under the Boardwalk in Eufaula, AL where I eat a polish sausage topped with onions and peppers, a vampiric flamingo with spiked feathers stands posed on one bony and impenetrable leg in ripples of molten lava and glares hideously at the swaying palms in the shadow of an erupting volcano.
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And yet you lived to tell the tale! Good thing your jetpack was fully fueled with far-flung adjectives, my friend. (Don't forget, I always have plenty of Tums on hand if inspiration strikes again.) Good stuff, as always!
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