Hour Nine Prompt Warning: If you are afraid of spiders like I am, I suggest you don’t read this unless you are okay with having that paranoid feeling that a spider is on you when it isn’t. I know I am probably going to have…

Jump rope twirling Ponytails whirling Jumping singing Voices ringing Step on a crack, break your mother’s back   Black as taboo Down in the bayou Worse than voodoo Hear when they say to you Step on a crack, break your mother’s back   Teardrops no…

Hansel and Great stayed out all night. And the next one, and the next. Their parents scoured the forest for signs but returned with only a mystery: How could children vanish into the evening like phantoms in the fog? The search parties passed the witch’s…

The sounds just around the corner was a mystery The children listened for nights but still couldn’t solve it They tipped out one evening to see what they could find And just beside the neighborhood pond was a cute surprise The sounds were from a…

  Frogs. Raincoat, steam percolating. Evening tomatoes, jars. Children elbow: mystery.  

  Here’s what happens when the poles shift Negative and positive recombine Magnetism reverses As it does pretty regular in geologic time, Which didn’t mean much to us last go. But oh, the wailing on the wind this time! You might be able to use…

John Lennon wrote, “She’s so heavy,” and suddenly, in the middle of the refrain, she was. As though Jupiter broke free, soared past the moon capturing the earth in its wake. In an instant, 9.8 m/s^2 ramps to 12.7 m/s^3, 12.7^4 m/s^10, 12.7^4^4 m/s^10^2 and…

There once was a planet called earth Where humankind at one time was birth Then they eat of the wisdom That showed them the Kingdom And now everyone knows their own worth jj2017