Published: 16 March 2026

The Settling of Playground Disputes Calls for Cool Heads and Cold Hearts

an overweight sawn eight in hexsplainmeter
when the horizon fails, fair lumber jacks wreak trees
create new wreathed view, gloves in hand, give a good squeeze
small labour ‘tis sharply wielded, done just to please
the court, but the cost of the undertaking, is sure to be seiz’d

mountains rise that men pasture, much is made of what is said
solitary evidence of laughter, no one remembers the song
that won’t keep up with the times, so it’s off to trial instead
the law’s an ass and a switch to gas, is what gets things done

fall can be a season, downing of a tree, the state of everyman
in this case, all three, divided twice, because that’s the way
we understand, wrapped in cloth or bare between the plan,
what cannot be explained, reason doth say: it pays the day

catch a man at play, let him beg to explain; then, you may say,
the knife in Billy’s back wasn’t big enough to do much anyway

More Poetry:

Paper time

Paper is a Time Machine, but it only goes backward in time.
Don’t ask where it begins, I don’t know where to begin,
but I know when you read you’re transported back in time.
I’m certain of that, but not much else. Is it part of the pencil

Radish

Santa Claus of the garden,
you bring snap of winter
to the mouth, crisp frosty heat.
Some call you icicle, watermelon,
breakfast, French, pink, orange, purple
(dirt had a real grip on that one.)

The killing and dismemberment of Osiris

Gods are murdered in ritual,
with family in attendance.
If not as executioners, then moral support.
The god must be torn apart
thrown into all that is and is not.
Sister brides always grieve
journey to join the god together,
as he has always been put back together.

Mom on deck

Call for Mom.
She’s needed on deck;
no one else will do.
Who could possibly replace her?
Santa Claus or God?

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Paper time

Paper time

Paper is a Time Machine, but it only goes backward in time.
Don’t ask where it begins, I don’t know where to begin,
but I know when you read you’re transported back in time.
I’m certain of that, but not much else. Is it part of the pencil

read more
Radish

Radish

Santa Claus of the garden,
you bring snap of winter
to the mouth, crisp frosty heat.
Some call you icicle, watermelon,
breakfast, French, pink, orange, purple
(dirt had a real grip on that one.)

read more

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