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

Along Floor Midnight

feathers sneakers the orange sleeping long for
fort locations the orange sweeping pink for
a who filibuster whistleblower slip

a who whistleblower tightrope speak
as filibustered dream transit that perfectly is
as undescribed asylum flight it coolly is

booze correspondent the overnight declining school of
feathers dream the ironic living erstwhile of
a when construction stunt disrupt

-- Glenn R. Frantz

New flame-headed bird species discovered in Cambodia
Opinion: Snowden flight turns into farce
Texas Abortion Defender Wendy Davis Was Amazing 
     Way Before We Knew Her Name

Goal Stunning Goal

The teenager was arrested on suspicion of theft
of seismic devices to overhaul his undocumented associates.
Seven years in jail under the supervision of U.S. security.

The three-time playoff MVP headed toward a deal on
high-tech surveillance equipment for sex at his mansion.
Extra border security scored 17 seconds apart.

The mail goal of federal agents: win votes, pressure police,
draw some abuse of power under the pathway to citizenship.
The media mogul is paying a minor a landmark $50 billion.

-- Theric Jepson

Italy's Berlusconi found guilty of paying a minor for sex
Late rally propels Blackhawks past Bruins, to Stanley Cup
Senate immigration deal would double U.S. border agents

Demonstrated Traffic Plan

rainfall rainfall rainfall football
rainfall football rainfall floods
about below submerged askew / askew below below askew

rail rail sharp debater / curiosity sharp debater
deluge deluge damage meter / rainfall meter rainfall rail
neither deluge deluge meter / rainfall football rail debate

official traffic rainfall landing
neither northern neither nor / rainfall city high askew
eastern heavy eastern search

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Debate analysis: Something slightly askew in first debate
Germans Join to Battle Rising Floods Threatening Elbe Towns
Mars Rover Curiosity Set To Move From Plains To Mountains

Jellyfish Push Against

accelerating its push into cloud computing
will become the foundation for a new service division
projected that revenues would generate incremental growth

accessed from any Internet-connected device
project to track the rise in the number of jellyfish
global warming overfishing clear way for them to prosper

problem is at its greatest in the open sea
banks several kilometres long density of 30 to 40 jellyfish
continues to wage war against cultural impact of internet

-- Clark Allison

IBM extends cloud services with SoftLayer acquisition
Jellyfish surge in Mediterranean threatens environment 
         – and tourists
French oppose digital revolution to protect culture and language

Completely Static Account

Amanda’s $150—despite the devil-possessed
fine fed Father with wigged-out eyelids
who zoomed to Mars muttering many a good update—

Despite him and a similar Sighting,
Amanda owed a woman's account,
a mosaic of reckless, wandering colors.

Buffs lobby to makeover her system—
Lower! More! Wrong! Always!
—that camoflauged curiosity between two rocks. . . .

-- Eric W. Jepson

Microsoft will retool Windows 8 after complaints
Amanda Bynes is like Linda Blair in 'The Exorcist'
'Mars Rat' Taking Internet by Storm

In Blaze Years

Sometimes massive crews emerge out of the ground
or crawl on the roads with innocent projects.
There are no cicada writings;

these iconic insects have no "Magicicada" periodical,
no brood spokesman;
only their 9,000-acre chorus

hiding in the forest like a loud brush
or a note scribbled on the Atlantic,
and their distinct structures of 13 on 17.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's note says U.S. 'attack' on Muslims drove Boston bombing
Crews contain massive North Woods blaze
Cicadas emerge by hundreds, billions more expected

Thin Robotic Memory

some of the most brutal reviews in recent memory
swarms of robotic flies to pollinate crops
extremely thin sheets of material

folds them to make components
had to come up with a new form of manufacturing
ornithopters meaning their wings flap

surfaces paper thin and flexible
carrying other functions able to change colour
produce a very efficient photovoltaic device

-- Clark Allison

Robodiptera
Graphene paint could power homes of the future
Long live Viva Forever! and the tradition of musical flops

A Walks Plateau

the pace mall inside tomato of
the wheeze yankee to much about
sighs of to furthest gardens dip the

hold among of such ladybugs leaves the
what their you may claims one also is
the country patient without king like

face in on nicknamed air quarter the
where their you will contrast thing barely is
the grandfather these of these of

-- Glenn R. Frantz

72000 Ladybugs Freed in Mall of America
The Tomato King goes to war for a casino
Avoiding triple-dip will be a huge relief to George Osborne

Makeshift Rhetoric Mix

two schools of thought about rhetoric emanating shoring power
          base
no worse than ritualistic promises testing leader resolve
formally repudiated armistice cut hotline latest round of sanctions

building under construction collapsed illegal and shoddy
          all-too-common
often live in crude shacks at sites demolish it and they build
makeshift settlements enough time passes impossible to demolish

mystery wrapped in an enigma mix of incomprehension ridicule
          and fear
might be on the brink of tipping peninsula catastrophic
shaking their heads in bemusement lurid exhortations to his troops

-- Clark Allison

Is North Korea really looking to start a war?
Mumbai Building Collapse Kills at Least 41
Mystery wrapped in an enigma: known unknowns of Kim Jong-un

Traffic and Paint

The narrow traffic between sidewalks and street curbs;
the immense super-traffic spread over Pangaea;
traffic pouring like urban lava through Broadway palisades:

Each tour a memoir in shallow kilometers
and areas of sudden technique.  The narrow paint between
sidewalks and street curbs; the immense super-paint

spread over Pangaea; paint pouring like urban lava
through Broadway palisades:  Each tour a memoir
in shallow kilometers and areas of sudden technique.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

New York Lays Cable With Surgical Precision
Hillary Clinton book on State Dept. tenure out next year
Scientists Connect a Mass Extinction to a Major Lava Flow

Decelerating Cases Suspending

dozens of militants involved in attacking power grid station
attacked with rockets and mortars suspending power supply
entered grid station early morning setting everything ablaze

not the view of malevolent outsiders do so smoothly or abruptly
fallen into middle income trap urbanisation at a decelerating rate
incremental capital output ratio highest since 1992

on guard for bombs at cash points blew a hole steal money scam
beware of wires and cables leading cases of explosions risen
the forecourt moments before showering floor ripped apart

-- Clark Allison

Militants destroy Pakistan power grid
Why China’s economy might topple
CCTV: thieves used a bomb to blast cash dispenser open