He’s an agent of enchantment, the guru of his flock— a professor who can mesmerize with ordinary talk. A master of expression, his descriptions weave their spells that hold students in their thrall through the stories that he tells.
They copy down in notebooks each word that he has shared, humbled by the wisdom of the heart that he has bared. They will never know that their stunning visionary
is inspired by Wikipedia as well as Wiktionary.
Have you heard the allegory of enchanted mountain with its chocolate boulders and raspberry soda fountain? Snow on the top is ice cream, but beware, for it’s precipitous and only accessible to the most felicitous children who the lessons of politeness have well-learned. Children who are naughty and selfish will be spurned. If you think this is impossible and just a silly story, remember that I told you that it is an allegory. The wisdom that it teaches is good manners are rewarded, and though there is no list in life where they are all recorded, still life tends to give back to us exactly what we give. If you desire sweet things, that’s what you have to give.
I don’t swallow your poetry, it’s lacking rhyme and meter. You fancy yourself as a bard, but you are just a cheater. Your words are all disposable. I’ve heard them all before. Your melody discordant as you walk out the door. I have a little fetish that I stick needles in. They say it’s made expressly for expunging faithless men.
The sunsets here are almost always striking, but over the past few weeks there have been some particularly stunning ones. Here are photos of a few of them:
The book is now available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BSJBWX37/Y Also available Lakeside at Diane Pearl’s Gallery, Viva Mexico, Jesus Lopez Vega’s Gallery
and from me at jubob2@hotmail.com.
You saw it here first! The book inspired by poems I wrote for prompts on my blog is now available on Amazon. It is an adult coloring book with poems by me and illustrations to color by Isidro. Above and below are the front and back cover.
Here is a sample of the title poem and its illustration. Get out your colored pencils! I wouldn’t recommend felt tip markers as they bleed through. Don’t try to color it on your computer screen or phone, though. The book is now available on Amazon!!!! You can find itHERE. Also available at Diane Pearl’s Gallery, Viva Mexico, Jesus Lopez Vega’s Gallery and from me at jubob2@hotmail.com.
With her instinct for mischief, my puppy is remarkable. Every falling leaf to her is an occasion barkable. Her sister and her brother and sometimes even me are all her dupes as any looker-on can clearly see.
She steals her brother’s food and he just lets her be, his look displaying an expression of futility. She steals Yolanda’s dusting rags to stage a tug-of-war, then drags her mop when she’s not looking, clear across the floor.
She must reconnoiter each bare ankle that walks by. First she licks it wet , but if you wait, she’ll lick it dry. Then she’ll tug your pants cuff or masticate your shoe, investigating with her tongue each tasty part of you.
She’s ripped to shreds four pairs of pants, my duvet and my tote,
my tarahumara basket, a two-hundred peso note,
the corners of two cabinets and my poetic papers.
No exposed object’s sacrosanct from her destructive capers.
But when I lock her in her pen for moments of reflection, she greets her isolation with such whines of pure dejection, It’s lucky for my puppy that she is so gol-darn cute that each threatened sentence I’ve chosen to commute.
Bad puppy videos below. Unfortunately, Youtube will try to take you off in a different direction after each one so you’ll need to come back to this post to see each of the others.
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