Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted In The Grove:
Like music and art, wilderness can be defined only on its own terms. The less talk, the better.
~Ansel Adams

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
~Maya Angelou

Without music, life would be a mistake.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

EndQuote:
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.
~Kurt Vonnegut

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Prewritten Exercise for Thurs 06/16:  city, shrine

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Posted from the Grove

~Gareth Branwyn: How to Be a Better Writer
If counterintuitive to this editor’s practice in small ways, very useful
https://medium.com/better-humans/how-to-be-a-better-writer-a3c877f67a5c

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Because you haven’t seen everything yet…
http://www.hintmag.com/wigs-on-asses-ana-hell–february-27-2017-2326-fashion?mc_cid

Compliments: Rusty’s Electric Dream

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten Exercise:  wishbone, spider

~BarTalk:
She He They

She
Couldn’t tell tarantula from a wild tarantella
Nor a spider from the dance at the sight of one
He
Was the same who took a wishbone home
Believed in the bone it gave if you wished for one
They
Are happy now together at last
Love is strange the universe vast

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Post-Nups

Wed at The Wishbone where serendipity met
Pledged where the rivers join at Wishbone Bend
A spider dangles loosely in the sacred hush
Patient as Satan near the burning bush

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Christmas Wish

Bone dry water empty kibble bowls
In a season of giving among generous souls
Only I saw Roxy fake-sniff the yams
Do the dodge ’n dart ’n quick grab the ham
Do the skid ‘n scoot
Spied her on the lam
So we made Noel the most-of instead of least-of
And celebrated Christmas as our Feast of the Pizza

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incantation

wishbone broken bone
spider and ladder
surprise him with face time
share sudden space/time
with this painter
briefly

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5-7-5 x 5

spider web brush by
unmanly screams shred the night
wishbone for a spine
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wishbone cleaned and bleached
black spider, no poison, pinned
trophies of the hunt
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age spots, spider veins
future plans not an issue
wishbone is broke too
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discarded wishbone
would have but for the spider
someone’s wasted wish
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dry brittle wishbone
winner gets the bananas
spider monkey rules

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