The Twitching Habitat

On the verge of France and California
Causing their strategy to collapse,
A tricky mechanism, a hungry bacteria.

Starlings are forced to inhibit the body
Scavenging for their habitats and lose,
Some of them have been found to go hungry.

No doubt, the birdwatch will be on
When we change our behaviour to conserve energy,
For the next stomach-distressing extinction.

-- Adriana Ciontea

Twitching to start as annual Birdwatch survey gets under way
Bacteria's sneaky way to spread by getting you to eat more
Cannibal hamsters forced to eat their own babies

The Drunk Universe

As a self-described "old drunk”
foiled by the confoundingly high pressures to create it
It’s a little surreal

I really don't see the point of getting angry
but surreal is what Balls is all about these days
It starts with the universe's big bang-for-your-buck

I do see the point of getting drunk
That would be brilliant, don’t you think?
It says they’ve cracked one more

-- Susanne S. Aase

'A truly magnificent talent:' actor John Hurt dies at 77
Ed Balls on touring with Strictly Come Dancing Live!
Solved? Cracking the code of metallic hydrogen

Super John Remembered

Gazing into midnight
everybody quiet
another hole in the heart

classic work of wonder
fond memories together
on the electrical express

Hollywood is yellow with age
time passing with powerful rocket fuel
The Elephant Man will live forever

-- Kevin Woodley

Retired manual writer remembers work on Apollo mission
John Hurt: From The Elephant Man to Harry Potter
Claim made for hydrogen 'wonder material'

That Consuming Posture

In the town's map, one dozen windmills stop.
If potent accusations of the principle can breathe,
it's the air that has beaten him back.

The younger generation seem interested.
See the genes rotate, like suspicious windmills.
They assume the mice questioning

by using lasers to launch an albatross;
but is that real hunting?
(See full experiment and video in the journal Fear.)

-- Glenn R. Frantz

Iran's Centuries-Old Windmills May Soon Stop Turning
Democrats Not Prepared to Challenge Trump
Scientists Use Lasers To Trigger Killer Instinct In Mice