Phenomenology- Short Stack
The Odors
Odors of life surround you. Dinner.
Litter box. Mildew growing
in the small cracks you can't see.
Life is largely malodorous.
It's chemical, not moral. Shit happens,
as the saying goes. Life is full of stink.
And fragrance, as the flowers
strive to draw the pollinators in.
And the courting couples flourish,
dabbing and spraying irresistible scents
Fly
The fly comes in against my will
and hers. She would prefer
the wider world with its piles of shit
and dead animals. I have no desire
to house a fly. She buzzes. I try
to beat her compound eyes
but can't. She annoys me for a day
and then my wish to open the door
and hers to flee coincide.
A Murmuration
of trash and fallen leaves
swirls in a whirlwind up
and around, bends
groundward to collapse
in a scatter of castoffs
covering the spidering cracks
of the decrepit cul-de-sac.
Odors of life surround you. Dinner.
Litter box. Mildew growing
in the small cracks you can't see.
Life is largely malodorous.
It's chemical, not moral. Shit happens,
as the saying goes. Life is full of stink.
And fragrance, as the flowers
strive to draw the pollinators in.
And the courting couples flourish,
dabbing and spraying irresistible scents
Fly
The fly comes in against my will
and hers. She would prefer
the wider world with its piles of shit
and dead animals. I have no desire
to house a fly. She buzzes. I try
to beat her compound eyes
but can't. She annoys me for a day
and then my wish to open the door
and hers to flee coincide.
A Murmuration
of trash and fallen leaves
swirls in a whirlwind up
and around, bends
groundward to collapse
in a scatter of castoffs
covering the spidering cracks
of the decrepit cul-de-sac.
"It's chemical, not moral." **
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"She buzzes. I try
to beat her compound eyes"
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Hate to see things this way, but you leave me no choice. "Fly" made me smile, tho. Mine hung around a couple of weeks, finally managed to catch him (pretty sure it's a him) last evening and he zipped gratefully (pretty sure) into the sky where he belongs. *
Thank you, Rachna.
Thank you, John.
Thank you, Matt.
Love the "compound eyes" detail. I see a magnified picture of this.
Thank you, Kitty.
Nice trio. I especially like The Odors. *
A word too on behalf of "Murmuration," which in both images and sound captures the movement so nicely, makes a lovely something out of a glance aside.
Thank you, Charlotte.
Thank you, David.
Thank you, Charlotte.
Thank you, David.
Thank you, Charlotte.
Thank you, David.
Thank you, Charlotte.
Thank you, David.
"Life is largely malodorous."
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Thank you, Bill.
*Even with flies, trash, stink, you take splendid note.
FLY! I want to hear you read this aloud. Hell I want to hear you read them all. Stand on the stage at TED, my friend. I will be watching. *
Thank you, Nonnie.
Thank you, Gita.
Lovely: "dabbing and spraying irresistible scents," esp. juxtaposed against: "Life is largely malodorous."
Thanks, Ed.
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Thank you, Sam.