Independence Day

others donned camo
make from crushed red fruit
and carried shields made from
vinegar-soaked slices
of phallic vegetables
to no avail

4rh of July

The invasion fleet
from Alpha Burgeri 3
encountered resistance

The bun-suited warriors
were no match for the screaming
native hordes

Daily Cabal

new flash Not for the xenophobic http://www.dailycabal.com/2010/06/reduction-in-force/

home internet down so no Sunday update

assaulted

don't look back
lot to ask: trust an abusive
yet stand-offish parent

thoughts upon a tree

Will I ever ever see
a poem leafy as a tree?
Roots so deep & trunk so knotty?
Information here is spotty.
Xylem! Phloem! Beetles roem!
Peckers peck (could these be critics?)
Moss is students incomprendo
Totality is muy stupendo!
One feature poem & tree DO share:
When burnt they heat and warm the lair
(but put CO2 in the sky up there).

tote that keyboard

Hammer time

break the law & break rocks
study rocks & consume paper

snake one and snake two

The whole thing is about 45 µm wide; less than 0.05 mm.

about my kitchen

purple velvet
cascades across the window
watering day



It isn't really MY kitchen.

oink, oink

http://www.dailycabal.com/2010/06/when-pigs-fly/ New flash story by me. Find out if pigs really fly.

invasion

gribbles move made
rename the big crack
gribble canyon
big puddle gribble ocean
don't mess with Graceland

look for a hollow spheroid

what asteroids
are such scimitars as these
god's bones revolve

BP goes galactic

no check on the seals
and what happens when they blow
wormhole rubbish

u mist 1

a potent rain




we burned motile weeds all spring

stray plants lobbed seed

sprouts outraced kudzu over wall and tree

vines swelled and squeezed

at summer's end they pulled

the city down




end

HOUSes?

stopped seeing humans
after a stint in Gany
ain't crazy no more

can't leave them alone for a minute

office door swings wide
I find the potted plants
at war
philodendron death grip
acephalic jade bush

turbidites

Atlantis

Each storm shakes loose
another kiloton of mud
from the continental shelf
that lays its blanket
across the gaping domes

Carrington event

equatorial
aurora captured on film
transformers melt

Mick Ralphs

spinning stars
and somewhere a ship
ready for love

GM might be necessary

Gives me hives just thinking about it


We knew the old man
he didn't have the chops
out on the beach
hanging around the
topless lifeguard
whenever her boyfriend
had to work
seafood breath, not like he
ate it, more like he was it
never got a good look
at his feet in his tacky
flip-flop shoes
coat of broken snaps
cop said he must live
somewhere around here
always moving
he looked homeless
he looked more than homeless
he looked planetless
something about the way he
vibrated when he walked
made you wonder
if he ever talked his way
into some girl's pants
what her kid would look like anyway.


--

nanofic too long for twitter

Now that he held the Nasal Stud of Power, ripped from the Dark Lord in the clinch of battle, only a self- administered emergency piercing separated him from global domination. He had always hated needles.

Laurel pt 5 of 5

https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15923773047
&
https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15923775399

coming this fall

A substantial collection of my poetry, both previously published and brand-new,, from Sam's Dot. Contents range from scifaiku to the longest I write (100+ lines), and from poems written 20 years ago to practically right now. The working title is "Brush fires." Watch this space.

chopped up prose

it was a simple matter
take a wrench to a few genes here
a regulatory complex there
oh
and adding the bit
about digesting concrete
and brick
then we turned the termites loose
and megalopolis trembled

Laurel part 4

https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15846227477
&
https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15846230758

part 3 of Laurel

https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15776843454
&
https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15776846349

Readercon

Stop by SFPA table at Readercon for copies of latest Dreams & Nightmares and some of my books at a discount. Alas, I can't be there.

eww

the cast removed
a mass of worms revealed
oh there you are

alrighty then

sum
terra peel
sleeping soil thunder

nanofic Laurel part 2

https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15702251031
&
https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15702254371

be very afraid

daddy longlegs
haunts her dreams with recurved fangs
8-meter legs

fiction and more fiction

http://www.dailycabal.com/2010/06/until-we-run-out-of-cake/

That one is by Luc Reid, but I have a nanostory at 7x20 today on Twitter, part one of "Laurel."

https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15623940994
&
https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15623956355
&
https://twitter.com/7x20/status/15623959583

croakatoan

I love these soft ones
cos they soak up the sauce
lost colony

astroku

hot wet summer air
hides stars makes ghostly the moon
we are alone

free lunches (zombies only)

we can remember Thursday for you wholesale

reasonable
fee taken
from your cerebellum

haunted suburbia

wind whispers of
madness and evil neighbors
don't believe all you hear

every dad-blame year

garden buried in
a rain of iridescent scales
dragon molt

holly tree

mockingbird
self-appointed guard
at the berry vault