Layered Geographic Pictures

in a foreign country
tiny noodles lick an iceberg
with uncommon modesty

(the noodles, not the iceberg, which its admirers call
"The Greenstone," made famous by "School of Rock"
and other films about geologists)

cone-shaped microbes ricocheted from the seafloor
sampling fossilized ship's food from the Titanic
in a luxury undisturbed by pop culture sediment

-- Glenn R. Frantz

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Developments Actually Develop

springboard were first first the springboard in first
cactus but the cactus secret secret cactus cactus
cache and the cache cactus cactus cache cache

bells sprung a vanished it just to just bells bells
tap both a bounced they once against once tap tap
cactus secret a flubbed she again of again cactus cactus

flower and the flower hostile hostile flower flower
rivals were secret secret the rivals in secret
dynamo were laughing laughing the dynamo in laughing

-- Glenn R. Frantz

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That Symbiotic Innuendo

It rained reliably, which provides
a widening metaphor for the dark years
and an automobile for overshadowing the embarrassment.

We're only looking for that symbiotic innuendo
that makes lead into gold, or speech into music.
Driving around listening to

the late karaoke host Dakota Swift,
we didn't find the elusive Invisible University --
maybe since it's invisible?

-- Glenn R. Frantz

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Dropping-Bricks Situation

Let's get rid of these molecules.
Let's get rid of this glamour and charisma.
I could not want it,

to get a taste of the leader of the cat kingdom,
empty Major of an empty majority.
This unusual patient we could not heal

was a world, a spacecraft, a radiology to a room
through a million darkened kilometers.
Who decided to get rid of Antarctica's ozone?

-- Glenn R. Frantz

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