a marching band,
steps in twos,
a street fair,
the xylophone
leans below
the chimes
he has above
the food stand,
bacon wraps
& sticky cheese
or chili —
a woman parts
her curtains
& her hair,
running with
the napkins
& her dogs
out the door,
‘Stay, stay…’
&, ‘Have at it’ —
the cats are in
a burning tree
by Susan’s house,
the bassoons
& tubas try
‘the shoulder
of the road’
an octave lower —
the woman now
a house cries
& wonders where
the clouds go —
at the window peg —
her jacket is &
thunder rocks
the drummers
by the bay —
thatman’s there
& always with
his kinky hose —
she’s looser
than her shoes
& cuts across
abraded gradients
in shadows of
the widest beeches
the size herself —
an automatic
song in alto
range this side
an endless
rhymeless
primal tense,
the water,
wood & wing
& everything
itself but
screaming —
she’s late for
school & at
this age in
aprons &
barrettes, ah yet,
it never ends —
studying Home Ec
‘& a smattering
of Humility’
& that’s aloud —
her classmates
still in town
break down
at the fair &
conflagrations,
the mewing
& the bar king,
thatman minds
his way down
as always with
the wood wind —
she’s unquiet
reddening &
steady as
an oven at
too many degrees —
she’s kicked it
up a bit,
it’s stuffed
basalt souffle
& bombe flambe,
it is the rage —
have you had it
ayaladn 
Bravo!
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Swimmingly!
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Your syntax has changed, or perhaps your centering, since I first began reading your work-all for the better, well at least it suits me-that could be good for me but bad for you. Time will tell I guess.
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Time has that habit, can we wait?
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Does Ayers not like to communicate or receive comments? I’m a neophyte-what is a URL Trackback-I mean I get the idea. Do I just click on it and my URL is automatically registered? What does it all mean Virginia? KB
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I had communication with him, when he thanked me for forwarding his verse (O, I so much find a belittling sense in ‘blog’, as a word;
could we cog?), I’m sure he’d rather not detour to other thought…& although I find myself more & more a technophile, therein I’m
not adept, & go now & then to the forum (& there again, time will tell); perhaps it’s best to look back & more carefully reread
the WordPress ‘Getting Started’ brief & thereby more sage
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