August 31 Word of the Day: Augustus

 

Augustus Disgustus

Wrote florid horrids

Monster wantsers

Greedier medias

Persian aspersions

All-mights all night

Augustus Combustus 

 

Augustus Combustus

Sold employment destroyment

Disappointment appointments

You’re hired you’re fired

Executive executions

Booked bimbo bombs

Augustus Golddustus

 

Augustus Golddustus

Made blue suit reboots

Phoney funny money

Lying without trying

Impeach speeches

Creaturely featurettes

Augustus Nonplussedus

 

Augustus Nonplussedus

Built artless arches

Stark staring statuary

Best crestfallen walls

Colosseum museums

Poison pools

Augustus Bloodlustus

 

Augustus Bloodlustus

Wrestled bantam phantoms

Lightweight lieutenants

Heavyweight headaches

Midnight monotonologues

Stormy swarms

Augustus Antitrustus

 

Augustus Antitrustus

Owed millions his millions

Doodly squat despot

Frauds rumours casualties

Lend him your last loan

Casino crumbs

Augustus Uppercrustus

 

Augustus Uppercrustus

Ate Big Mac super snacks

Diet hard Coke

Oreo afternoons

Famished for fame

Glutton for glory

Augustus Wanderlustus

 

Augustus Wanderlustus

Wrote geography autobiography

Made Greenland meanland

Israel misrule France frown

Muddle East Wild West

Gulf of Emergency

Augustus Sawdustus

 

Augustus Sawdustus

Left perks circuses

A pitiful pit full

A slumpful dump full

Golden shower caps

Olden power naps

Augustus Disgustus

Blueberry

 August 30 Word of the Day: Blueberry

 

Blueberry her tag, her registry statement at the home (temporary) from bewildering lanes of city cruelty. There to learn the hard way. To learn the scavenge of empty places, the threat of eventide that is darkness. Cat outside the bounds of domestic expectation, arrived unbidden, unknown. To be found in the crucial moment. Saoirse Blueberry O’Connor. Her chosen name after discovery. A basket on the passage to a corridor. Smell of unusual dry biscuits and lapping water bowl. Todays one upon another where a door opens on grass and green stalks. And settled sleep in dusk’s inside, dawn’s safe re-emergence.

Stimming

 August 29 Word of the Day: Stimming

 

Iso-mandala No. 206, detail (November 2020)

 Tapping fingertips upon the sill. Repeating lines of a song out loud. Saying something over again until it’s meaning is clear. Doesn’t everyone engage in at least low level, minor stimming? At a loss for words and need for words I express syllabic streams someone might call glossolalia; the gloss fills the loss. Shifting objects into a line, or special order, or equidistant from one another until it feels right. Could this minor stimming be the fractal of major stimming we do daily? Walking the same route somewhere familiar, for comforts’ sake. Doing the bins or washing-up. Furrowing the alphabet.