Archive for April 2026

Erasmos in Tarsus   Leave a comment

Erasmos landed in Tarsus today.

Grunny Grant, his sidekick, moored the longship.

Erewhig, the Minister, asked John to play

Jesus, the lead, in the pageant.  Key grip

Sesama, the wife of Caan, was singing

While Little Lord Mayor O’Malley put

Melville in a box (upstanding, wearing

A Hat and drinking Starbucks in a Nut).

Bald, intense Operator Tolly Ward

Joined Ismael in a whale hunt (intense),

Ignorant of the secret, hidden chord.

Night comes on, very long, and with silence.

  Escaped architect Evan Grieg remains

  Marked by the ashes of old Jesus chains.

Posted April 17, 2026 by phringo in Uncategorized

Connections Poem 1033   Leave a comment

Archers are muscular, to the extent

That balm measures efficiency and blue

Is gloomy in the summertime, or Lent.

Cream is balm to the dark—blue, minus hue.

Moses, go down with Ed, fish for ointment,

Or paste.  What Wordsworth said about Springtime—

Goats and lambs (more or less), born heavensent,

Bounding to the tabor’s sound,* Nature’s rhyme.

Low on Zodiacal tree, the symbols

Run slack over Rams and Jacks, who bear yokes,

While the high rabbit rips as he rumbles.

Rub dragon’s egg, shred thimble, tell no jokes.

  This is the Second Coming, Noon Darkness.

  Blue without hue, we hear cries of madness.

*Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of early Childhood

Posted April 13, 2026 by phringo in Uncategorized

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