The Daily Dread
Yesterday
half a walnut shell
of water for fiddleheads
just enough to curl
bound with a ribbon
wrapped in the ties that bind them
couples secret bond
Thursday night caprice
A warm up for the weekend
Full tilt boogie buzz
Slamming the Royal Seal into the melted wax on another proclamation, His Nibs said in a guttural growl. “The only folk dance I am not allergic to is the polka. Others are too similar to my haphazard full bodied gesticulating hand jive which I use to hypnotize people into buying snake oil.

Right, right. Dazzle them with the accordion. Look, Ma! Two hands and neither hand knows what the other is doing.