Contracts scribes spines
Papyrus-pushers jaws
Doors biennial false;
Refusenik for scrivening
Cattle census dreary
Inscrutable drawing
measuring tax
mechanically recording;
The silently
A Dadaist poem for #OpenWrite
Source: Ancient Scribes Got Ergonomic Injuries, Too
via New York Times
A leaf, still falling,
dances to the sound of wind
rustling its edges
Bask in fading light -
the way shadows dance at night
in quiet moonlight
Listening again -
the piano plays the pain;
cold November rain
Sleep beneath the ground
in a blanket of darkness,
you nightshade tuber
Nimble little legs
scurrying along the sand,
chasing ocean waves
Night sky's cubes of ice -
stars falling in jars of dreams,
intermittently
for Algot
Ice cubes, now melting,
chill the provisions we bring
into these deep woods
Paw a patch, then play,
cat, that small Valerian
sends forth feline love
Deep within the hedge,
quail quiver under cover;
then fly, in flutter