No vowel left behind

Saturday I watered the post and let them in
Stuck as angels caught in the wiring
Listening to the flat footed songs
Lessen by evening thoughtlessly thrown
Loosen by cavities storefront left behind
Clay vessels with claws detached
Wanting to wash my hands but I won't
Pouring warm porridge
Reach for a towel, read insanity clause
Warm cold dripping from heart
Let the south-west in
It's not a direction but a thought
Piece by piece piles come together
As they ought
Written in glass the arm cut off
And the parsing games began
A noun a vowel slowly drops out
Sitting on the toilet, flush behind
Round and round it goes
Down and down it goes
That old black magic.

Denis Streeter  3/23/13

the the

sometimes things work
sometimes they do
i was wandering my mind
thinking of spring clues
not there yet...
living the laughing zoo
captivating the cardboard kind
that mingling the the
shingling in zoos
comfortably fine
if not divine
then what...
the the gained power
the knots got broken and the fish went free
the powders pounded me sideways
i laught until the shoes went splinter
hofo in the afternoon where the eggs lay
littered in the the of the chime splintered grass
looking optimistic at the wings of dawn
the the climbed from its hiding place
placing shingles in the two bys
looking up i could see the the disappear
but only for a line or two
then it appeared with an n at the end
and the castles shingled the timbuktus
watching the antelope in eye drop pews
washing the wishing wells wait for temples
to open wire and shingle the plains
nothing to do but open the catshoe doors
drink the bumblebee stew
laugh the elements in two by twos
in posts and clues
the the disappeared
the shindig belly up
the adventure between the lines
the paper over and out
and the lunches split with the dinners
still looking for the then.

Denis Streeter   3/11/13

Kendal mints

I am a sugarholic.  I'm pretty frugal, but I've saved and scrimped to buy Romney Kendal mints from Cumbria, UK.  It's named after Kendal portrait painter George Romney...so let's leave politics out.  They were a favorite from my childhood.  It's like a hard mint slab that tastes a bit like a York Peppermint Patty...but SO much better.  It's pretty much pure glucose and peppermint oil.  Every year I would ask for some for Christmas and you could only get it at the REI.  Then they stopped carrying it...some ten or twenty years ago.  I finally got my sugar source.  The website for ordering is Kendal Corner.  Check it out.  The mint and fudge is the best...and it's fresher.  Try the Rum & Butter bar...it will grow on you.   I've share them all with my co-workers.  Some like the Rum & Butter bar best.  You end up paying twice the price with shipping, but it will arrive in about four days.  I tracked it.  It went from Cumbria, UK, to Carlisle, UK, to Castle Donnington, UK, to Philadelphia, PA, to Louisville, KY, to Seattle, to my front door.  This time it was five kilograms of candy...or eleven pounds...just under one hundred dollars.  It's so intoxicating delicious it's worth paying the shipping price...and per ounce it's not much more than any regular candy bar in the U.S.  I've made four shipments in the past three month...so yes...I'm addicted.  I mostly like the Kendal mint cake...for which they are famous...particularly on climbing expeditions.   I just ordered the extra strong mint cake this time...I could feel the taste shooting right through my eyeballs.  I think they're still glowing an hour later...but it's probably all the glucose.  It's an interesting website.  They also have a monthly quiz you can buy for one pound...thirty questions...with answers to last month's quiz.  I don't know the questions, but the answers were interesting and informative.  The money they collect for the quiz benefits a local Cumbria Catholic School.  I'll buy the quiz on my next order. Denis Streeter