Corporeal Love

10th
Sep. × ’09
By Theda Thread

What is corporeal love, after all? Love of a corpse. Spiritual love is conspiracy. Dinner plates, nail clippings, your damp hair on my pillow — all soon discarded.

Our love was whispers and eye-gazing. The breath of words poisoned these lips.

Nothing is real but this kiss. Dream of me, sweet.

3 Things About This Micro-Fiction

  1. Both romantic and creepy. Hair and nail clippings.
  2. Moral: A totally non-physical love is ultimately nihilistic.
  3. Totally unrelated, don’t you think Romeo and Juliette would make a great zombie adaptation?
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a palm strand yellowing, untwisted cattail lines

9th
Sep. × ’09
By Melony Dott
a palm strand
    yellowing, untwisted
        cattail lines

3 Things About This Haiku

  1. All palm leaves in my imagination have one wilting tip.
  2. “Untwisted” seems like a very twisted kind of word because it’s un-something-ed.
  3. Written while drugged on coffee and sleep-deprivation.
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Old Man’s Cave

8th
Sep. × ’09
By Hensley Corner
Ink drawing called Old Man's Cave

Ink drawing called Old Man's Cave

3 Things About This Artist Trading Card

  1. Card was handmade from Georgia-Pacific card stock.
  2. The title “Old Man’s Cave” was an afterthought.
  3. I had nothing in mind except to play with my new brush pen.

Trading

This card may still be available to trade. Email me if you have a standard 2.5″ x 3.5″ artist trading card you would like to exchange for this one. If someone else hasn’t already contacted me I will gladly arrange for an exchange.

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Mermaid Sightings

7th
Sep. × ’09
By Theda Thread

We talk of mermaid sightings—the talk of mermaids half-seen.

We have not seen. Only heard talk. Like sex talk, who believes a word?

They say it was a misty morning. A grotto. A cove? The children’s bodies draped across rocks near the broken guardrail.

Who could believe that? Who?

3 Things About This Micro-fiction

  1. Engendered by the words “mermaid sightings” in a book, title sadly forgotten.
  2. I imagine a woman talking to a man as they sip wine by the fire.
  3. I think four is the maximum number of paragraphs I can get from 50 words.
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brick lay flat brighter and torn from under

30th
Aug. × ’09
By Melony Dott
brick lay flat
brighter and torn
    from under

3 Things About This Haiku

  1. the first haiku where I really felt I’d written haiku
  2. thinking of that satisfying moment overturning a buried brick
  3. the first two words suggest the word “clay”
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