#70 Irony

I awoke

middle of the night

thinking that

I’d messed up

the count—and of course I’m right!

(Reread Sixty-eight).

Skat@2024

… #68 Spring in my backyard

Another

typical day of

uninspired

waterlog—

more showers and bog here in

bloody Canada.

Skat@2024

Shadorma #64

I sing at

the Catholic Church,

in the choir.

I’ve done this

For ten years, if you don’t count

Pandemic Sundays.

Skat@2022

Shadorma #53

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October,
we expect fallen
leaves, winds blown,
not this hot
day of raging thunder in
a tropical storm.

skat@2019

Shadorma #52

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Each morning
now we awake to
the sound of
insistent
bluejays shrieking their demands
for some more peanuts.

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Roofers (Shadorma #51)

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Four men are
on my roof just now,
working hard.
I shower
and it feels an invasion
of my privacy.

skat@2019

The Downside (Shadorma #50)

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to having
a smart speaker is
when your cat
turns it on
with the volume at full blast,
and it’s rap music!

skat@2019

Accounting (#49)

You’re going
to laugh, because I’ve
got it wrong:
the count’s off, it’s too
few syllables, ’twas never
a real shadorma!

skat@2019

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Update: Ignore this, I HAVE been doing it correctly after all. As you were.

Foxtrot (Shadorma #48)

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Not on the
Whiskey, I swear–I
saw a kit
Tango-ing*
along the curbside just now,
then vanish. Bravo!

Skat@2019

*not actually, but I did see a fox trotting on the street

Shadorma #47 (dandelions)

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seedlings blow

tiny transporters

like snowflakes

on the go

released into atmosphere

to repopulate

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