Elsewhere
Cheerless deer emerge. Peer. Breezes beseech evergreens: Be berserk. Be wreckers—even wrecked. Hell defers. The trees, demented, deplete restlessness.
Elsewhere, dresses press flesh, yet reddened texts eek free. Well, YES, excess feels best. Gentle temptress—tempest—when whelmed be treble, when sexed be cleft. Be deft.
Elsewhere, the weeds enmesh Demeter's endless tresses. Kestrels, lewd messengers, veer west. Seedless, she remembers keen descent; her threshed whelp; her defects.
Bellwether, peel me zephyrs. Geld them. Gentle the feckless elements. Deflect.
Elsewhere, BLEEP these BLEEP. Sever tethers. Be verb. Be event. The self, never deferred, ends sleepless.
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Skrimshander (Attys 2012 entry)
Poetry"Upon entering the place I found a number of young seamen gathered about a table, examining by a dim light divers specimens of skrimshander." from MOBY DICK, by Herman Melville
