Author: Mellow Curmudgeon
Tooth Truth: Canines & Molars
When He Pulls Strings
Dancer’s wooden mask:
leather hinges swing open.
Drum throbs; shaman chants.
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Hinges swing shut as dance ends:
hidden face; revealed spirit.
Photo © Trustees of the British Museum
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Khan Academy | Transformation Masks
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Ornithocardiac Irony
Oak Tree Hymn
Show Case #2 (Writer’s Co-op)
Click here to see episode 2 of the Writers’ Co-op Show Case curated by Sue Ranscht, which begins as follows:
Catharsis
Those submissions are due by the end of Monday, November 1, 2021, and will be published here the following Friday. Please attach yours as a .docx, .doc, or .pdf to an email to stranscht@sbcglobal.net. (Guidelines: any genre, approximately 6 – 1,000 words.)
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October Cloud

Sailing on fall wind,
a flock of droplets migrates.
Each is a small world.
Sailing ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #286
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Show Case on Writer’s Co-op
Two on Mortality in 3-5-3

Emergent
from dancing atoms,
life is short.
Let’s live life
with defiant joy,
all the way.
Carpe Diem Haiku Kai … #1850 dried grass
“Dried grass” in the challenge comes from Basho’s last haiku, written as he was dying. My response imagines him rallying to console his grieving companions.
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Layer Upon Layer
Smooth outer layer.
We see rough inner layer
when the light changes.
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Layers nest like Russian dolls,
when science shows us atoms.
Layers ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #283
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