dogtrax

All gritty remnants remain, dusting trees and leaves, but the sun shines through

for Algot

and in the interim

I'm still and thinking

for #mastoprompt

Distant cousins to both dogs and cats,

they eat on the run,

with sharpened claws that never retract

and scavenge the dirt of earth for what remains;

thin, muscular, eerily powerful in a pack

for #mastoprompt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spotted_Hyaena_(Crocuta_crocuta)_(W1CDR0000381_BD12).ogg

If one, then all

If not even one, then everyone falls

for #mastoprompt

This machine eats all our words and spits them out

neither asks our approval or permission

It only edges us writers into extinction

a Sijo poem for DS106

https://www.sejongculturalsociety.org/writing/current/resources/sijo_guide.php

She was trying to tell me something about her life

We were tender in the space between black and white

And the best thing I ever did for her was to resist the urge to interfere, obscure

This is friendship, after all, yeah

remixing Closer to Fine by Indigo Girls for #mastoprompt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgwM1Ky228

The wheels go 'round

The wipers go swish

The driver shouts out

The kids make a wish

for #mastoprompt

Triptych: A Panel in Three Poems

Three scenes from an exhibition, hanging on a pin, dangling introspection

Two memories of an experience, taut wires on a collision course, intersection

One panel, only, tells the story of what we know of as the truth, imperfection

for #mastoprompt

Beneath the shelf of memory's dust

a writer digs to discover a sense of self

for #mastoprompt

Storms dropping hailstones like baseballs, the young fielder readies for the out

for Algot