#306 Le Pain Quotidien

If the visibility is
good, & you're on
top of something

like the Tokyo Tower,
then the city's most
beloved retro icon

might be seen main-
taining her exposure
to cloud-based apps.

#305 La Fissure

The earth opens up.
Money appears,
U.S. dollars. Some
change hands, the

rest remain in open
view, available to
anyone. A teaser?
Or a smoking gun?

What was. What
is. An open window
able to bend light
in both directions.

#304 Rose & Pear

Snap an index finger
onto the skull. Make
a loud, drumming
noise. The subsequent
sine wave flatlines
even though the signal

is strictly limited at the
threshold. Ear drops &
finger rings rebound.
The floral bergamot
finish lingers for lovely
effect. It begins to rain.

#303 The Cape of the Tempests

Spring in the
Southern Ocean.


Caliban is off
looking for wood.


The rock moves
closer to the sleeper.


He is dreaming
of Helen Mirren.

#302 Le Rendez-Vous

Smallish mongoose; pointed

face; solitary, in pairs or small

groups. Slightly diminishing

the polar distance. The history

teacher lectured us every day,

did not sacrifice the quality

of her scorn for speed, her words

at first awakened horror but

continued abuse became mere

recitation. Something about a

dead horse, diurnal floggings.

#301 The Domain of Arnheim (1949)

A sudden snap
freeze shatters the

window, but not
the bird outside.

Inside is a different
story; though on &

in reflection much
the same. Some play

on words that can't
exist in the original.

#300 Fashionable People

Autumn is a tricky time.
Fashionistas get ready to
face the cold winter months
but try not to completely let
go of their summer styles.
Judgey blondes, with little
to qualify them beyond
starpower, must practise

soothsaying &/or augury
in order to keep coming
out of the woodwork with
new lifestyle brands that we
must either consume or else
opt out of the fashion stream.

#299 Le Calligraphe

Winter is coming. We have prepared for it. Have written over & over on any place we could lay a brush on, "winter is coming." We have written, & now the snow has fallen, & overwritten everything.

#298 La Maison

                            In what is essentially a 
              compromise, a sound system 
                          has been custom designed
                                to enhance the teacher's 
                  ability to communicate, to 
            reach out to students, to

                           turn memorized inform-
                ation into communication
                                 & expose the brain to a
                rejigged language structure 
                      that makes the describing 
                               of strange structures easy.

#297 La Belle Captive (1931)

The grape harvest is
over, so no window
full of staring men in
bowler hats. Just a
single man walking
along a grassy path,
not even significant
enough to be included
in the painting of
what might be behind
the painting if the
painting wasn't there.

#296 Scheherazade

The Marquis de Sade—
also a favorite of the

painter—spent a literary
120 days in Sodom. That

was slightly more than a
tenth of the time it took

Scheherazade to convince
her husband to cancel her

execution, & at least a
1001 times less enjoyable.