Post-Dated Checks

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Thanks for reading and commenting Sorella, Jane and SP! It's always greatly appreciated!

Steve

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Wind Trading

The worldwide supply of wild-caught turbot is very limited,

sun starved aspargus spears stay white, grow more deliciously,

cherry wood Hepplewhites, tulip futures, a certain nostalgia,

David Sanborn, the horse operas, grand pianos, grand children plotted

on a graph, what’s the probability, the New York Herald Tribune, buttermilk

pancakes, blast furnaces, formica table tops, everybody's running for mayor.

[SP Singer]

Steve I like this well-rounded list! Every word sounds as if it is tightly packed/part of something/belongs entirely. I love L2 and L4 into 5.
I think your choices may be trying to cause a gaining speed in reading, to sense wind, the ebb and flow of it. I can see many of these things unmoored, sky bound. For revision you might slip in a couple of more emotional 'things', but nothing that would draw away too much attention, a fine balance, to keep the plates spinning! Sp

[GreaterMandalaofUselessness]

Hey Steve,

Hair Brain I enjoy the sound-driven nonsense progression of the first line, and how the second seems to suggest that list might have been caused by a computer-glitch. Also like the idea of a computer glitch turning the sky dark, and the image of the fine black hairs choking the computer. A Complete History of Trajectories is fine name for a book, I can see how that might have messed up the computer.

Wind Trading food-based list poem that reads like it might also be a collage. It's fun, but hard to say too much about it! That said, I like how the "everybody's running for mayor" can make it read like every item listed in the last four lines is a mayoral candidate.

best,

Matt

[Janelo]

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Tulip futures.


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[Sorella]

Steve,
I think we have a found poem, or if not, it certainly has the ring of what you pick up reading / watching the news.

Trading in wind, investments in nature -- children, asparagus, tulips.
The climate as well as the stock exchange plus trade winds and adventure spring to mind.
Excellent collection of associations!