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3rd Wednesday has published my poem “Le Plus Ça Change” on their website.

I am very pleased with this small poem because it was formed by looking at two poems which were not quite working and taking the best parts of each (the images, of course) and combining them. Perhaps it shouldn’t have taken me as long as it did to try connecting these pieces, since they were both about things French. But the brain gets into ruts of thought sometimes; the process is a great pleasure when something breaks through.

I hope you like it too.

Another Fabulous Poem

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By which I mean a fable, which is the original meaning of fabulous. is it not?

I shared this with a friend and decided others might enjoy it too.

Who’s in Charge?

Ego has closed its door,
made thoughts its guardsmen.
They circle in front, repeating

their paces and phrases, block
grinning geckoes eager
to slip over the sill.

Mind, dutiful and dull,
dusts off old ideas, packs
for a calm day at the beach.

Let nothing disturb ego’s tryst
with remembered innocence,
imagined power.

Truth’s grimy lizards would spoil
the mood, turn Ego’s party to pity.

It was frustration with my thoughts going in circles that instigated this fable. The power of an image to expand into story is such a satisfying process.