Author Archives: ayaladn

perforce a limp began as ‘tho an arch’d insole or ankle twist as calf & shin rotate a leg, the inj’r’d knee, alleg’dly, the steno’s l’j indit’d red the auto’s path what time as blue a crossroad graph’d the accident

no entry thru the cabin room, to compromise a clean-up crew, a muddy shoe, a sole report, the tense event a kitchen knife, in sharper light the stainless steel at rest the halves of photographs, a redeye stub, the blue gas flames

a tabby lad in freckl’d tweed supposes luck a tenterhook, a shoetree, for the frays & cuffs of vagabonds, a stitchless time of peppermint a candied store, the calculus of lottery, when she is there in calico

as fallen to the sickl’d moon a tune, to pale a picket fence, in thickset slip a willow switch to bramble hip, considerate a wicker chair, the wicket wait a lock as wide the window seams

inflect, perhaps, an article as the to thee, altho’ as thou aver a vowel, a world awakes, as effortless in innocent simplicities from nothing noting more pens’ ultimate unless, O yes, the ulterior