World War IV is Behind Us
by Jim Leftwich
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
—- William Wordsworth, 1804
if the strained twelve
Aver strange thrift
Etudes Headlamp
Nodding tea lights
Model sea Lions
Morphing street Precarity
Jobless eluding soulful
Bystander Melee mob
Ghoul thistle sand dune
Tyrannical umlaut Junta
Femur cumulative Morph
Mindful fuIcrum dry
Red Yucca & burro dung
Allusive curatorial
interstellar spacetime
once UnIit units of
residual Kinesis
Confiscated
kaleidoscopic
Headlights Janus
Works Hearty to salt the
milk the milk Burns Nicely
The moon burns Naughty
between Televised Yawps
toothy dwellings inhabit
The tired tries Heart
forgot to Hide to hide the
forgettable Hidden
gifts of forgotten Beaches
benches Collusion volatile
World War 4 is behind us
elides roan We Eleven
red Enclaves Whence
Minds full of crumbs
rinsed too Far
A toothpick
Too Long
Wish upon a poem
selves Feathering
spatial Like the
soul of a Flying fish
daily stroke Variety
Exudes intruders
hypnotic Vertical
Rhythms veer.
Left to right top to
Bottom Anxiety box
coach hoax index
jinx bend Chides
The ides of
Christmas the
Eyes of Fatima
blends Coaxed
bathtub bat tub
North of Prolific
carrying a Ladder
self Studious
Freedom is Damp
And Hidden in
Dirt Juice
five Layered
foot long Dyes
Hybridized by
Glutinous elf
Fief Glamor
Dripping from
Nighttime to
Milk the salt
uncle Onion
is oil pIea Oaken
peas in Oceans
pIzzle Ozone
impoverished
Oil derrick
politics of the
Body lurch Lunar
until therein
improvised augury
Burglarized
Fruity prizes
urgency
By provolone frog
Fugue hesitations
hugging telephone poles
narrow nerve nine not a hinge
chump hump champ am amp
clump chump chomp chomp
egg role pinto ratio rose
They sail to hearty works
collage of collages
backstroke neck clock
bean variations mountain
floating against the flow
garage fleeing
grand and fleeting
Construct instruct cornstalk
town hall hailstorm only
Seven states remain
Undecided five days before
the election renounced
An army of clown
Warriors enunciation
renown disowned
Turpentine frown
ermine Tofu around
hyper-referential hounds
who ferret Tardigrades
Raven walk bound
winch uneven Rubicon
eke Sanctuary down
blunder Torpedo Epoch
Sounds like a playground
Teenaged Bullies
At the merry-go-round
halt hat
Lean spleenLoan splash
Splat
found above ground
thunder wonder under
pond plop
peek mere
Like a turtle
On a Log
