Reconcile

 August 19 Word of the Day: Reconcile

 

Letrilla: Reconcile the month of August

 

The queen asked the maid and the maid

Asked the prime minister who greyed

Okayed asked the treasurer just

Tell me are we about to bust

Reconcile the month of August

 

The taxman told the accountant

Told businesses and endowments

The Auditor-General cussed

Underlings tooth comb discussed

Reconcile the month of August

 

The last of the long weekenders

Told the last of the big spenders

Creditors with high-sounding trust

Nudged debtors grafted on by rust

Reconcile the month of August

 

Courtrooms overflowed with dismay

Querulous cases come what May

Judge and jury persist nonplussed

We’ll be here till we turn to dust

Reconcile the month of August

 

The cold front encountered unplanned

The warmest month since records began

Where cherubic zephyrs and gusts

Spoke sudden Aeolian lusts

Reconcile the month of August

 

Sitting

 August 18 Word of the Day: Sitting

 

Eating breakfast waking up

Keeping balanced coffee cup

 

Leaning forward as you speak

Meaning’s awkward hide and seek

 

Staring upward at the ceiling

Deciphering the carpet’s feelings

 

Pissing peaceful at stool your own

Cogitating systems upon the throne

 

Waiting arrival of the urbane commute

Watching landscapes from a window so beaut

 

Kneebone footbone to the floor mate

Sternum straight back as for a portrait

 

Sedentary ergonomic might

Typing keyboard left and right

 

Sitting pretty telling a phone what’s what

Photographically on the spot

 

Alone along a laneway alcove shaded

Squeezed in by crowds lost paraded

 

Crosslegged calm outside the rush

Knitting patterns their own weaved hush

 

Quietly quite upright somewhere somehow

Wishing waiting would end now now

 

Tickling smiling the cat’s chin

Homeward is where they let you in

 

Yoga poses or at least close supposes

Checking news is no spray of roses

 

Reading pages prolix up in bed

Slumping slumberwards in your head

 

Recollect

 August 17 Word of the Day: Recollect

 

Recollect the day, its pleasantness, resting into my pillow. The heavy fog, augury of sunny day. Kindness of breakfast barista to pay tomorrow when credit card defaulted. Jasmine, whiter than pinker over side fences. Email with good news. Progress with next week’s speech, two more sentences. Cataloguing a book by the Limbourg Brothers. Light at the end of the tunnel with an arduous task. Girl curled with lapdog curled in tram seat. Crunch of baby corn, wiggle of shiitake, and scent of rice over dinner. Paying a long overdue donation online, at last. Reading Primo Levi and listening to Mozart.