The Journal Begun

Sometimes I think anything Canadian is a dear departure.
Lauded trillium. Informal climate.
The dimming string instruments of the modern, recorded over

with a groundbreaking outside University summers.
Ascending conditions: June, July, August.
Falling instead to a signaled finale.

Keeping her aides fed with the odd Swedish book decade,
the Chairman of the Map managed an escape
to the prize stuff of tropics fiction.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Alice Munro wins 2013 Nobel Prize in literature
Study: New Climate Era To Reach U.S. in 2040s
Yellen Waited Out Fed Post as Summers Candidacy Collapsed

Moves Swarms Protest

aquatic robots dedicated thinning numbers jellyfish swarms
overfishing climate change created conditions for jellyfish
once caught jellyfish pulverized using special propeller

moves political debate macroeconomics to living standards
the most precious political commodity is credibility
not austerity more a baggy theme masking myriad choices

charge of piracy only crime to be possessed of a conscience
an assault on the very principle of peaceful protest
abseiled helicopter to deck of Arctic Sunrise at gunpoint

-- Clark Allison

Jellyfish 'pulverizing' robots trained in Korea to hunt prey
The Tories will fight populism with dull seriousness
Russia charges 14 Greenpeace activists with piracy

Through Lines Position

winds intensified as famous harbor churned with waves
cut communication and power lines cutting off electricity supply
nuclear plant Hong Kong initiated emergency response schemes

implementing difficult but necessary operational changes
address position in a maturing and more competitive industry
end-to-end solution of hardware, software and services

superstitions don't see an eagle will be a bad day
five-hour battle through 4m waves to get his tiny boat home
a delicate coral "tongue" let umami flavours wash over

-- Clark Allison

Densely populated Hong Kong battens down for typhoon
Blackberry to cut 4,500 jobs amid earnings plunge
On the trail of sea urchins in the Arctic Circle

The High Ground

Apparently, according to astrobiologists, we stink.
Blame the temperatures.
Actually, we persist,

and think up plans for habitable forms.
We made our camp in a spectrum of gears,
the absolute sun that we all live to study,

and projected an unlikely city
that could be almost right.
Perhaps, we think, the experts are coming.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Could euroskeptics spoil Angela Merkel's election party?
We Still Have 1.75 Billion Years to Enjoy Earth's Treasures
Will Phila. be the graveyard of public education?

Surrounding Which Reflecting

peaks not sensor and power spikes would no
raise not freedom and power citizens have possible
breadwinner joint wage the the shirt paid tougher

weapons joint wage the the titan shell deadlier
attack counter own with least likely opposition a
readings counter largest over least minimum data a

ocean counter frozen behind least thicker floor a
heavenly did the facing moon the gravity led that
confident has the poring hour the gravity said that

-- Glenn R. Frantz

We've cracked riddle of ANTIGRAVITY mountains on Titan
Syria behind chemical attack, British intel concludes
Fast-food workers continue fight against low wages

Fears Leave Today

Catastrophic car bombs
deeply unsettled officials
on opposite sides.

Inside a shrill sloganeering square:
unsettling silence.
Policemen muttered; protestors sat still.

So much screaming so early.
In full force, 18,000 gathered
today in one direction.

-- Gary Glauber

Deadly Blasts in Lebanon Raise Fears of Sectarian Conflict
Not Again: A Gang Rape in Mumbai Leaves India Reeling
One Direction Rocks Biggest 'Today' Show Crowd Ever

Holding This House

Looking for a little home
is enough to test this history.
A chance to add another notch in time.

It's difficult to imagine
a house containing secrets
that would destroy the first white surrender.

All eyes front -
Patiently focused in one impromptu direction.
This Is Us

-- Winston Plowes

England out to make history at The Oval
US government wouldn't force reporters to destroy computers
One Direction premiere: Is this it?

Reeling the Ghost

The mystique of the modern-day Edison,
a troubled cultlike figure begs, the rise of the dominant
echoes questions about his fate

No expectation of privacy, thrust into the surveillance
state, spurring the legend into meaningful action
following fired uproar

The technophiles facing injury thrust brilliant,
his burgeoning title role finished
to solidify an early death

-- Chelsea P. Rubin

The cult of Steve: A Q&A with ‘Jobs’ director
Google: Email Users Have ‘No Legitimate Expectation Of Privacy’
The Patriots got very lucky on Wednesday

On Finding Life

Reading of an Alabama sex parasite
fighting for businessman consciousness
after studying medical rats...

"Eating brain rare,"
apparently official scientists said,
"continues on to Tuesday and after death."

"Swallowed hearts," some report,
"have shed brief human possibilities,
a verdict infected with a light electrical charge"

-- M.P. Manahan

Boy infected with rare brain-eating amoeba in Florida
Possible Hints of Consciousness After Death Found in Rats
Ala man dies moments after child sex conviction

Three Diversionary Worlds

the eponymous pyramid
abandoned but not ruined
secrets of a jade globe

a chameleon on stucco
the richest mixture of TV shows
decorated with actual feathers

trotting up to visit the spirit of the mountain
surprise!
it's a summit of downtrodden tourists

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Mayan sculpture discovered in Guatemalan pyramid
How Obama's Putin Snub Is Playing Out in Russia
Matt Damon talks about Neill Blomkamp's 'Elysium'

Pro-Regime Curve Split

treacherous curve sharply reduced speed ignored warnings
total derailment at 111mph lose contact with rails
four seconds later applied emergency brakes

series explosions ripped weapons depot at least
and injuring fireball hundreds of feet into the air
some seriously dozens wounded blew up pro-regime after rocket
     fire

shedding certain belongings nothing to do with marital split
nothing without some kind of strategy or agenda
rings with the tenor of the times another game he is playing

-- Clark Allison

Spanish train driver ignored 3 warnings to reduce speed
Syria: Homs Explosions Kill At Least 40 People
Charles Saatchi to auction off sculptures and installations

The Nearby Comforts

Packing for a surprise trip to empty hotels
in the winds on a sunny mountain.
Can't figure out bowling.

A mark on the clock, at the nine,
changing the direction of the melody.
It turned as though past surprise.

Called out over the forest and the anticipated lake.
The combined appearances of cabins and condominiums
convened a peaceful outback.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Zach Johnson shakes off defeat, leads at Muirfield
6,000 flee peaceful California resort as wildfires approach
Zimmerman jury sequestration included steaks, pedicures

Episode of Alienation

He is remembered a villain.
A fresh body, he is traveling by soul
to board his memory.

Sepia-toned films cut his mind—
toxic remedies portraying residues of human reason:
A man, but titan, he ate tormented hearts.

He is vermin, the monstrous dark a pesticide—
an ambiguously familiar comrade
transformed to fate.

--Xannie Corlett

Pesticides found on Chinese herbs bought in Canada
Review: Not even Johnny Depp can rescue 'The Lone Ranger'
Today’s Google Doodle: Tribute to Kafka’s The Metamorphosis

One Steadily Abusing

On a Monday in June,
in the highest, poaching weather,
Her elephants age.

Her air will season the ivory’s degree,
and her soaked, soaring atmosphere
blasts these heavy tusks and teeth.

Temperature, known as The Woman of Peak,
faces the deem of the animals
to rape its identity.

-- Xannie Corlett

Could nuclear weapons save the elephants?
Death Valley sets all-time June nationwide record at 129 degrees
Police: Ohio woman cites diet pills in sex abuse

Orbiting Design Boundaries

habitable planets orbiting sun-like stars
a combination of slow and rapid environmental changes
oceans will have evaporated extinction of all species

restricted to few scattered reservoirs of water
falling carbon dioxide extinction of plants and animals
veiled boasting, gushing romantic posts incessant updates

more than a quarter found users' posts too personal
fold up desk free wi-fi and 40inch smart screen TV
some people just don't seem to set any boundaries

-- Clark Allison

Real Doomsday: Earth Dead in 2.8 Billion Years
Facebook: the reasons why we unfriend
Premier Inn launches new high-tech budget brand