By Francis Scudellari
I hover in ether,
A ghostly hand's caress
Curious, tentative
Touch thick-calloused surface
An outré encrusted
World only vaguely felt
Ghastly apparition
In circled route, tear-dropped
Foreboding I follow
Leaden cumulate waves,
Dark-rippled sunshine's ooze,
Sludge slow-spilled from above
Taint slathered tongue taunting
Tests its new-found morsel
Undulating, rolls it
Relishing swallows it
Down knobby throat pushed to
Brown luminescent maw
There, in spectral bath fouled,
Fleshy features eaten
By miasmal juices
Till smooth-worn, bony
Pebble left adrift, still
Un-wrested, I wake up
17 comments:
That would certainly be a terrifying nightmare to experience LOL. Well done. I like this how this one is put together. Excellent. Only you can pull of this unique style.
Superb unique style. I'll keep reading. Even though it's terrifying. :)
Buon risveglio!
Hi JD,
I definitely agree that I could only pull it off ... I doubt anyone else would even try :). Thanks as always for the praise. It was an odd little piece to put together.
Hi Jimboy,
Thanks. I hope I didn't terrify you too much. Please do come back often.
Ciao Hanna,
Grazie, but most times I enjoy being asleep :).
And for some reason You nightmares
I did Bible Quizzing when I was a teen. I did the Nazarene version of it, there's actually quite a few, like Baptist and non-denom, I think.
Anyway, every month between September and April or May, each church in the district who want to participate get a team together. They study a certain book of the New Testament every year. And each month they get together and compete.
The first month you might quiz over Luke chapter 1.
The second month, Luke 1-4.
And it grows every month until finally you quiz over the entire book.
Um, to quiz... you sit on chairs, with electronic buttons (we call them jump seats) on them, so... you sit on the buttons. (in Baptist quizzing, you sit on chairs, but you use a button that you hold in your hand...) The Quizmaster sits facing the teams and asks the questions. If you're the first to jump, your light will turn on and you can answer the question.
If we're being asked questions over Luke chapter 1, a question might be, "Who have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us?"
And, if you're a good quizzer, you would know the answer by "undertaken" and jump.
Then, you would have to finish the question and answer it within 30 seconds. If you don't answer the question in that amount of time, you get an error. If you get 3 errors, you error out. If you get 4 answers correct you quiz out.
It gets really hard with 8 people quizzing against each other to be the first to jump and get to answer the question. (Maybe I'll do a post about it... Use pics and stuff...)
I guess it's kind of complicated. But it was a lot of fun. My last year, I made it to Nationals at the Olivet Nazarene Uni. near Chicago. We went and explored Chicago during our free time. Pretty awesome.
in the second paragraph, I mean EVERY YEAR between Sept and April.
Great one! I like it...though it reminds me of the nightmare I had before.
Hanna,
I have more nightmares while daydreaming than when asleep. Would that make them daymares? :)
Hi Elise ... the idea of people jumping up to answer questions is actually a bit comical. I think the hand buzzers probably worked a lot better. Where did you go in Chicago?
Thanks Anmari! I think a lot of us have probably had this one recently :).
Yeah, I guess it would seem a little comical. :) It's really not, though. Really, you only have to lift your butt up off the seat enough to trigger your light. Then, if your name is called, you stand up.
The novice quizzers almost always jump a million miles up off their seat, but when you watch the advanced quizzers, they barely move. You might see a slight twitch of their leg or something, but that's about all.
It's much better exercise than the finger buttons, I think.
Yeah, I'm sure I'd be like those novices and jump up only to be the one not called on. Then, I'd have to sit back down very awkwardly :).
I think that worked well for Earth Day.
Thanks Cooper. I probably should have done something more celebratory of the environment rather than so frightening. But that's the mood I was in after watching Planet Earth.
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