Outside The Test

We didn't think life would survive the elements.
It couldn't do it without the havoc of competition.
But none of it is any good if you don't have photosynthesis.

Can the Phoenix really be said to survive?
The weary earth itself has outlasted it.
We didn't think, but we didn't think we couldn't think.

I'm largely grateful for these sarcastic words.
I'm not looking for the Seven Rules of Knowledge,
I'm just processing a sample without the key.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Clinton Rally Organizers: We'll Back Obama
NASA: Robotic arm key to finding life on Mars
Windermere teen has crack at national spelling-bee crown

Enough Remake Season

lake that formed when
quake-triggered land slide dammed a river
seduced by wealth and perks, never really comes together

ability to work with actors, not an auteur director
never left his personal stamp on a film
remake romantic comedy beautiful costumes

forced to endure daily rains beneath tattered thatch huts
drinking whatever water they can find
in low-lying delta as the monsoon season nears

-- Clark Allison

Sydney Pollack's films exhibit a versatile, collaborative hand
Aftershocks in China Topple More Than 420,000 Houses
Conditions Ripe for Disease in Myanmar Delta

Critical: Attracting Options

Beneath the low hum
of a graying sky, the fading
aura dissembles.

We were frankly warned
of this unexplained trend,
what it might mean.

In Tao, there is no
unsolicited urgency, only
the lone, myriad way.

-- Don Wentworth

Young Pennsylvania voters drawn to Obama
Iraqi lawmaker to U.S.: Back off
For Yahoo Clock Ticks Down to Microsoft Deadline

Like New Yesterday

related was secretly owned celebrated
discarded was further established provided
completely as completely brought

washed broke and taped
unprepared knows and talented
already of already expanded

tossed sent and only
cited blew and now
finally for finally imagine

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Hurricane Katrina Victim Wins $97 Million Lottery
A Decade of Sins Deserves a Year Out
N. Korea gives U.S. nuclear papers

breastfed candidates extend

breastfed
and babies -
evidencings were related.

knock-outhern,
states the
United Clinton Demographic.

both,
and game
leeway... and failed.

-- Andrew Bailey

Clinton, Obama clash before Tuesday duel
No More 'Help' For Rangers
Breastfeeding 'helps to boost IQ'

Already Revealed To

The behemoth of conjecture, long happily willing to
tackle the role of the spectrum of agency to emergency,
threatened to end the speculation

as his foot endured the nerve-racking response to
a drumbeat dropped in mid-march to mock
the bowing of music to systemic graces repeated

to engage, to a fault, the terse sealed process
that surrounds the hearsay that no news is new news to
the unrest cacophony is always welcome to.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

After First N.F.L. Pick, Day of Tantalizing Choices
Wireless Auction Probe Clears Companies
China to meet envoy of Dalai Lama

From Womb Complications

Screwing up another panel on hospital-grade drugs,
my eyes double-vision. A coliseum. A state.
“This is good,” I cue the picture of the implantation.

I cue the picture of the artificially fertilized eggs.
“This is the baby now, 10 years after,” I cue shot
of child at the compound. “She’s loving it.”

My eyesight blossoms. Blurry. 10 years
I’ve been suffering. With experts and crowds
of people. The agency is a plot. A bog.

-- Heather Cousins

Mothers from polygamous sect separated from children
Lasik Patients Describe Complications at FDA Hearing
'Baby Mama': Womb Service

Unfortunately Flying Critics

He who has harnessed hope
Has lifted a balloon of presence
With hours of awareness and wind.

She who bested caustic presence
Won the elusive wind
And a massive infusion of hope.

Difficult critics imagine the wind
May stage the ambitious hope
Of turning stars into presence.

-- Andrew Bailey

Balloons used in priest's record flight attempt found
Analysis: Obama still struggling to win key constituencies
Critics agree Gone With The Wind blows

Betrayed Children Evacuated

our duty, to protect
survivors of this church
not deeply ashamed

to separate them
from mothers in the sect
all sexual physical abuse

save the children
our recovery mission
to give secular healing

-- Barbara A Taylor

Fallout from FLDS raid is intense
Plane Crashes at Takeoff in Congo
Pope, in US, Is ‘Ashamed’ of Pedophile Priests

Booze Breaking Intentions

We hear that due to a crackdown planned on the alcopops
        of Wales.
37,000 youths were dispersed by underage minister, Coaker,
and that 1027 spirits called the police home choke a success.

Jail, though. Regular gig again
for the car-breaking junkie who took a cocaine solo
        on Thursday.
Then Glastonbury Pete turned up on a horse.

Enough to have a she and tell study?
Or ruin the well-prepared glance with size-line of jaw
        and woo eyes?
Look, clues! Is enough to glance at the well-prepared shape.

-- Pam Thompson

Over 20000 litres of alcohol seized from kids
Pete Doherty jailed for breaking bail and taking drugs
Face gives away sexual intentions, new study

Rule Of More

A robotic control series gingerly bottles Coke,
while hanging fans breathe robotic applause.
We slide from a needed cargo to an embarrassing ocean.

Jules Verne oversees the Bureau of Supplies,
and cheers on the development of giant new things.
200 tons of spare computers, and still expanding!

We are added in the turnstiles of a flawless abacus.
A second later, our newfangled seats have been constructed:
Not likely to be more comfortable than our grandfathers'.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Census counts on pencils, not computers
Cargo Ship From Europe Joins Station in Space
Fenway gets a few upgrades for a home-field advantage

On Popular Peaks

Temporary peaks of incomplete mountains
Like watching a million faces deep in sleep.
Faces, people, anyone with compelling reason

Anyone who has ventured outside of precision.
Only one so free who is not involved
Should chance an appeal should risk losing.

Video strokes create new context, new terms,
While memory releases a nation’s cognitive history.
An American audience exercises a new identity.

-- Tom Trusty

When the waist widens, risk of dementia rises
U.S. Iraq Embassy Workers Ordered Inside
YouTube Releases Video Analytics Tool

The Hour of Earth

The sudden skyscrapers embraced their second
climate change. The obviously usual individuals
answered far short. Massive. Thousands. Green.

A switch flicked in disappointed harbourside
gone dark. Hundreds of Earth. Thousands
of Hour: Then Atlanta and the big chicken.

A phenomenon. Massive. Varsity gone north and wild.
The expecting answer, far short. Be.
Less predictable gathered important short time.

-- Jeff Hansen

Lights off! Sydney supports Earth Hour
Lights to go out in Atlanta for Earth Hour
Earth Hour: Let there be dark

Pregnancy engagement falling

Among the important issues raised by the pregnancy of Oregonian Thomas Beatie is whether a female-to-male transgender person who becomes pregnant might be endangering the fetus, especially someone like Beatie, who has been taking testosterone for at least 10 years. There's very little research on the subject to date, and some experts are at odds about it. Any possible damage done by 10 years of testosterone would be irreversible, he said.

Jamie Lynn Spears amped up her own engagement rumors Tuesday by showing off a sparkly rock during a Kentwood, La., coffee run. Of course, if it is an engagement ring, she's wearing it on the wrong hand. But those Spears sisters always have done things...uh, a little differently.

"It was like any other night," Raul Navaira, 40, said Wednesday.

Except it wasn't.

"The next thing I knew, I felt stuff falling over me," he said.

-- Mario Puente

Transgender Man's Baby May Have Health Problems
Jamie Lynn's Ring: Just What Does It Mean?
Emilio Navaira's Brother Recalls Crash

Rejecting Backgrounds Speculative

Time in at this point,
the keeping in with futures,
and nowadays shimmering impenetrable the at odyssey
        known.

View in at this barrier,
the piercing in with refusal,
and paradoxically compared cracked the in think
        situations.

Exiles in at this sentinel,
the including in with fiction,
and more adopted imaginary the for information
        sharpened.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Some Tibetan Exiles Reject 'Middle Way'
State Dept. contractors access Obama's passport records
Where few have gone before