Shell and Evening

even if you could figure it out you didn't need to
understand, if you want to play in theory
whether a snail is at home in the rain

by measuring the woods had paced back and
in the well of the cup, even the calm land seems convoluted
when the tired patterns relaxed like past hours

fossilization practice -- accumulation, for example
if it needed a recent idea, in the cup of the well
even better if you mixed in the unknown formula

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Paleolithic Escargot - Prehistoric Spaniards Cooked Snails
Reviewing the viability of a PGA Tour playoff system
First relatively calm night in Ferguson since teen's death

Vacuum Current Revealed

I am bubbling with the zeitgeist! Twin PR companies
have just announced my plan for a cylindrical underground
Gigafactory to build the new Tesla Thermos.

The factory, conceptually executed, will produce
enough hot coffee to last into the 18th century.
A ship of up to 40 feet can be assembled in a bottle,

removed, and at last discovered
in the mysterious ancient shipyard of Arabica.
Construction starts now and will stop in the year 1773.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

I Drank a Cup of Hot Coffee That Was Overnighted Across the Country
Tesla's new battery teammate: Panasonic
Wooden ship found beneath World Trade Centre built in 18th-century Philadelphia

Nature of Grandeur

the a stage of in shore cloud stages
the a cars of in harder secrets cargo
to are you latest the retains

the a move of in smaller crystallography movies
in molecular restaurants bolstering the unraveling of
steamship challenges the on season that photosynthesis than

lake drop the of bucket that Michigan than
with coal spoke splitting the ferrying of
to are it every the remain

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Water-Splitting Stages of Photosynthesis Revealed
IBM Risks $3 Billion to Stay Relevant in Chip Biz
Last U.S. Coal-Fired Steamship Sails On, Aiming for Cleaner Wake

With Shadowy Engineering

This mysterious suspected mastermind
of the exiled machine for making uranium broth
can speak, chew, and walk in zero gravity.

Her son was born with syndromes that leave him,
and experts query her for means that could explain his own.
The machine is mum about him.

Initial hopes withstand the elusive foes of the
clandestine pressures that function to rehydrate space.
Astronauts will keep alert for glitches in the facade.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

As sequencing moves into clinical use, insurers balk
Enigmatic Iranian at center of U.N. nuclear investigation
ISSpresso: Italy designs coffee machine that works in space

Court Case

Tianamen square crackdown
Strictly limits public
Authorities have detained dozens

Will serve 500-calorie meals
Provide at least three healthy
Exceed recommended daily intake

Disputes between countries
The tribunal to invalidate
And present it's case

-- Anne Victor

White House Honors Victims of Tiananmen Square
HPB pushes for more 500 calories meals
Court Hands China 6 Months Deadline in Philippines

The Consistent Prescription

The sarcastic arts snort at the undaunted audience,
whose bizarre autobiographies chew unique justice.
Her lifetime commitment to appropriate opioids

became a chapter filled with odd words of awkward.
(As in, "She shows sideshows in the Southern Specific.")
With this silent expensive enthralling result,

to inject a maddening lance of molasses
into the quickened black locker of the dangerous page,
confounding the scholarly opera reporters.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

To Lance Stephenson, blowing in an ear is 'just playing ball'
Maya Angelou, the Feminist
Study: U.S. Heroin Users Are Mostly White Suburbanites

Amid Giant Kingdom

you or it you demanded fall down
contested woodlands, a tapestry of, for trees
we and they it said accused really

almond urgency, a sense for, in cannons
of you're sure the forests gain
plum tea, an interest in, in ships

for they're foreign the apple bedecked
they and you you include said absolutely
red china, a cup of, at sea

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Obama Seeks Midterm Votes on California Fundraising Marathon
China blames Vietnam for sea collisions, but calls for talks
Apples of Eden: Saving the Wild Ancestor of Modern Apples

Targeted Data Branch

Thanks to massive surveillance, we know everything on
carnivorous mammals, while herbivores eat the document
the country intercepts themselves eating.

You either eat the document or you eat the country,
but you also eat the lotus.
They were themselves reptilian,

but asked to question classified reptiles,
unveiled the prehistoric armed kingdom of reptilian Toronto.
We neither represent old forces nor afford a manifesto.

--  Glenn R. Frantz

BJP just replaced hand with lotus: Rahul Gandhi
Putin Tells Snowden Russia Does not Conduct Large-Scale 
     Surveillance
We now know how carnivores evolved into herbivores

Creature You Figure

The future of arthropods is in public transportation.
Researchers at the University of Blue Bristol
discovered a million-year-old marine animal that had

appendages around its mouth, used in talking on the phone,
and a system of socializing that let it join unions.
And what about your evolution? Whatsamatta,

do you prefer to filter treasure from ocean water,
or to sit quietly by the big sheds
in the ancient light of northern Greenland?

-- Glenn R. Frantz

520-Million-Year Old Sea Animal Filtered Food like Whales
What does it mean to be an introvert online?
College football ruling should have schools scared

As Inaccurate Secret

play metallic the forest the over still depth cover
adds blue the hammerstone the of so concrete vocabulary
tar multisyllabic the gong the solidifies

rocks scored and seldom it,
figures one the chance the write
prevaricator mandatory the predictor the wake

bell shored and ever you,
devils muted or heavily them,
guesses obscure the glacier the after even hail tones

-- Glenn R. Frantz

College basketball scores: Wake Forest downs No. 4 Duke, 82-72
Re-examining the SAT is (A) Good; (B) Bad; (C) Overdue; 
     (D) None of the above
Stonehenge Holds a 'Sonic Secret'

Baby shrugging apologizes

A baby screaming for independence:
subhuman attempting to defuse
mongrel linguistic traditions.

The infant's mouth urged dialogue,
apologized for differences,
nonetheless drew protests.

Spiritual leader -- told the liar that he is --
wasn't breathing, holding a statement:
preservation of respiratory terminology.

-- Carol High

RockerTed Nugent apologizes for Obama racial remark
ShruggingOff Chinese Protests, Obama Meets Dalai Lama
Good Samaritan, quick thinking save baby on expressway

Grisly Incentives Decided

Evaluating collectible traditions, China stages
Tibetan political agency. White House coughs,
Obama reveals why all the following leaked:

Alien-ridden, potentially religious Netflix media;
Steve Jobs postage stamp; Exiled Dalai Lama industry;
Gotham City linguistic tax agency.

US told in low-key stages, “Enough.” Proposals
and a billion strongly-depicted merits
hosted, offering up president preservation.

-- Robert Woerheide

'House of Cards' and the massive business of tax incentives
Shrugging Off Chinese Protests, Obama Meets Dalai Lama
Just like Elvis, dead Steve Jobs to appear all over America

A Familiar Moment

Brigades of the dismissed
From North and South
And heavily armed with head and hand

Riot as artists of walking
And singing the song
Of an unseen motherland

And the police nearby
Are seized and carried
In arms of breakthrough passion

-- Jay St. John Knight

Breakthrough in Alps murder mystery
Pussy Riot members detained in Sochi
Libyan militias threaten parliament in Tripoli

Soweto Set Seven

The candles were black
and they had wounds on their backs.
The Razor blades were in their school bags.

Wrapped up formal
in a place to do good work.
Talks of Saturday.

To be set free.
The death sentence commuted to life imprisonment
of seven prisoners, three.

-- Zach Jackson

Soweto girls’ ‘satanic’ end
Italy’s Renzi set to reveal cabinet
State to free seven jailed over killing of Rajiv Gandhi

Violence Hacking Rate

Lunchtime in the heart
Plastic bullets and shotgun pellets
Intensified week by week

Unofficial hacking
Hour long conversation
Sleeping pills

Fresh boost, fallen youth
Target set removed
Focus forward... no longer

-- Leanne Pereira

As it happened: Alarm at worst Kiev violence
Hacking trial: Tony Blair advised Rebekah Brooks
Record numbers of women in work as unemployment falls