The Wrong Crisis

A new committee will not help you think.
To get Icelandic jellyfish, cut a hole in Iceland.
Are you saying you can negotiate the complex paths that wind

through woods of green tension, to bed in peaceable houses?
Yes, drunk again.
Save the biological problems for the biologists.

From the grades they've assigned to life, it had to fail.
And a microscope is too big to prevent regret.
Any guiding star has to send you too far to circle back.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Three U.S.-based scientists share Nobel chemistry prize
Google's drunk e-mailing protection is nice, but won't save you
Meltdown in Iceland

How Particles Realign

Screen the alcove condenses two from A of space.
Branch the space form two of A from points.
Space the province broke four with A in secret.

The collisions the communion against.
The scrutiny the correspondence with.
Cosmic these and nothing detecting engage streaks to from.

Darkened white and smudges enclosing secede glass to with.
The abstentions the cone of.
The yesteray the messages of.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Hackers post Palin's personal email on web
Frontiers of physics
Episcopalians vote to oust Pittsburgh bishop

It's All Happening

sputter worse summer comes to an end
with the cooling advance of autumn
ice nose-dived out of the division

summer shrunk to the smallest size on record
two sub-standard changes stuck in my head
I could not possibly lose another warming game

taste affects the workings of the world
seeing is not necessarily believing
every time trusted scientists are wrong

-- Rupert M Loydell

Bitter taste over China baby milk
Arctic ice melt not quite a record this summer
Seeing Is Not Necessarily Believing

"I don't believe what I just saw."

I thought there was no way the Mets could possibly sputter worse
I thought there was no way the Mets could possibly putter worse
I thought there was no way the Mets could possibly sputter curse

I thought there was no way the Mets could possibly sputter worse
I thought there was no way the Mets would visibly butter churn
I thought there was no way the Mets could possibly batter verse

I thought there was no way the Mets could possibly sputter worse
I thought there was no way the Mets should possibly shutter
        hearse
I thought there was no way the Mets could possibly spatter words

-- Rupert M Loydell

Seeing Is Not Necessarily Believing

Submerged City Cause

engine fault probably caused crash caught fire mid-air
no information to suggest crash cause terrorist attack
fourth city four months synchronized bombing attack

detonated within half hour crowded shopping thoroughfares
rescue crews fan into flooded neighborhoods
found in submerged vehicle close to the airport

dust never settle targeted hub extremists can
mysterious group local media claiming responsibility
appealed for calm fears that home-grown has taken root

-- Clark Allison

Russia air crash blamed on engine
Bombers spread death and terror in Delhi
Death toll from Hurricane Ike up to 8

On Seconds Ashore

bad weather led to aircraft hitting hills
seconds before impact attempted to fly out low-flying cloud
suffered multiple injuries totally inappropriate speed

stabbed a security guard police building
secretive trial criticized on Internet sites some blocked
started fire at gate attacked officials building

pulled from the water not suspicious
not equipped to fly in scrambled cloud
force helicopter brought paramedics ashore

-- Clark Allison

Fatal helicopter crash accidental
Death sentence in rampage sparks debate in China
No charges over woman's sea death

Breakaway To Turnaround

The extended wells of a ridiculous e-mail war
said that extraterrestrials were accelerating evacuations
from hatches in the ocean off Nova Scotia, while

in a spit of shell-blue sky, not a robin had evacuated.
The nation's cloudless spokeswoman probably stretched
to stop leaders from launching the forecast

that someone suggested their presence provoked;
making those umbrella remarks that help no one, operators
likening it to rain sparked from an offshore hurricane.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Putin Asserts Link Between U.S. Election and Georgia War
On Tour, these quirks keep the ball rolling
Firms hurry to remove offshore workers

Rival Handshake Freaks

Who can deny location?
I'm in no hurry to change
I'm absolutely fine

It's comforting being off the grid
I don't think I missed growing up
Power-sharing talks freak me out

Third parties are lining up to cut deals
People track and communicate with friends
They may be watching me

-- Rupert M Loydell

Mugabe rival 'barred from travel'
Cindy McCain is injured by a handshake
Yes, Fire Eagle's cool. It also freaks me out

Luck Is Subsequently

as smog questions innocent, through portraits crown thick
admiring and braced, getting and expected
innocent is a very

opening and described, embarrassing and added
cognizant is a conclusively
momentous defend a dramatically

if apology prolonged maligned, as rhymes mask auspicious
whether mask masks eighth, when missteps rush lucky
beginning and witnessed, giving and continued

-- Glenn R. Frantz

08.08.08 - today is the day to get hatched or matched in China
Anthrax investigation should be investigated, congressmen say
Masks May Be Part of Wardrobes at Opening Ceremony

Accident Found Space

tunnel closed more than an hour all lanes police said
motorcycle caught fire in accident with car
not an excess of any one but the combination

neither confirm nor deny phony prescriptions or illegal means
masseuse found actor’s lifeless body in Manhattan apartment
other drugs anti-anxiety and sleeping pills legally prescribed

got carried away but this is messy
tosses guys aside leaving hurt and destruction behind
been making frantic phone calls needs space to work things out

-- Clark Allison

Geary tunnel reopens after motorcycle accident
Investigation Into Heath Ledger's Death Closed
Sienna Miller's fling is a disaster

The Lakebed Sound

Fish created a secret evolutionary technology for singing.
The singing spread in a growling bass hum, to videos
and bookings on multimillion-dollar nature shows.

Due to flooding, city officials must issue
confidential payroll documents for water vertebrates.
Nemo is accused of suggesting a "bail out".

For their next surprise, the fish decide to launch
"The Bass Univeristy for Geosciences":
Landing with a grunt in the disgruntled future.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

'Maniacal' computer engineer takes city network hostage
Revealing the secrets of the red planet
Spread the word: Fish talk

For Whose Benefit

a sense of euphoria and hope in a nation
a nation eager to shed the legacy
Paradise, nirvana, must be something very close

the word "Free" in capital letters
a few speeches and some folk songs.
conflict and generalized despair.

left-wing insurgency has been fatally weakened
fatally weakened after it was duped
shed the legacy of more

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Former hostage gets to hug her children after six years
'Nirvana' in Bogota for freed hostage
France awaits return of its cause célèbre

Species Of Wondering

Published on a fever shore
the stock strand mammals
milk another sonic lung.

These are the suffering hours,
the damage of a dying cough
crack the security of doctors.

The skin of summer pulses,
the radiation whales of old
may winter another sun.

-- Rebecca Eddy

Winehouse Hospitalized: Emphysema or 'Crack Lung'?
Time in the Sun: How Much Is Needed for Vitamin D?
Supreme Court to consider sonar versus whales

Shed Damaged Conventions

months of creative rehearsals develop through improvisation
walked into view edge of stage in bluish lighting
control normal traffic damaged pulled out of service

investigating human or mechanical error slammed back
        two-car
must allowed monitor runoff avoid criminal regime steal
shed blood cede give up country presidential runoff

16 injured both vehicles expect to release more information
I never conventions routines cast idea carnivalesque pageants
repeats at end rejected producer embittered demeaning
        ensemble

-- Clark Allison

Mugabe warns he will not cede power in Zimbabwe
Muni officials search for cause of train crash
A sprightly elegy

Ancient People Helped

the plant fact the sapling of of part
in planted attention from the platform and
the sculptured pot the Methuselah of of center

the in seed long-extinct hurt
rapt shows which in simplest
on tumble fruit as the palaces as

the in nudity month-long decades
figures dates that from naked
the soften leap the aim of of sweetness

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Botanists making a date with history
Work on Texas GOP's platform stirs passions
Friday 13th for Brian Cowen