elder's daughter

elder's daughter meets us at the stream of her mad biology
sequined hindstones mark her passage into relevance
     it is known even to the thundering apes, repelling from tall trees, bento boxes in hand
as they are not finished with them yet

a prenap
you won't kill me as i doze?
we are a heady pair

analogy of the day

maiden : voyage ::
(A) female : trippin'
(B) christopher columbus : voyeur
(C) first : lady
(D) prima : facie
(E) 'made in japan' : nuclear holocaust

that large loom loomed large in the spinster's stories. every day she'd string together yarn after yarn for the spindly women the next porch over, who were too fragile to escape her boasts of indigo cardigans crocheted for crotchety long-dead heads of state  -- truly an unspooling of material far beyond any of their threadbare memories. these women may once have been cut from the same cloth, but their patchy relationship would soon unravel like a performance of 'bolero' by wounded hemophiliacs. 

analogy of the day

sardine : sardinia ::
(A) tangerine : tangiers
(B) pencil : pensacola
(C) george bush : skull and bones
(D) skull and bones : pirate ship
(E) pirate ship : european mercantilism

bodega bay

she yanked back her purse from him after he had stooped to retrieve it from the floor of the baskin robbins. she had thrown it toward his shins seconds earlier; nickels and dimes were still rolling around the linoleum.

'what about bodega bay?'
'you've got to be fucking kidding.'

with that she left. he picked up all the change and bought two scoops of brightsicklygreen pistachio mint. he found her debit card under a stool and handed it to a chinese boy, who started shrieking, reminding him of her.

analogy of the day

high-flown : submarine ::

(A) over-the-top : low blow 

(B) sublime : low-slung halter top

(C) godly : pterodactyl

(D) peat-mossy: scottish drunk

(E) Louis XVI : croque-monsieur