— tap (dripping)
— gutter (also)
— hair blown; hand (150mg cortico-steriods)
— trash on the beach, willows ‘neath the tide
— Joburg slums, libertas for West Papua
— the forest and the trees
— species: elephant, thylacine, bluewhale
— the planet’s dark progress
— the grieving we must do (new words required)
Image: St George’s Anglican Church, Lightning Ridge NSW, 1933, after the cyclone, Reverend Arthur Leyland Bird, priest with the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd c/- State Library of NSW on Flickr. A quadrille for Dverse, where De Jackson is hosting and asks us for a fix.
And to mark the passing of Florian Schneider founding member of Kraftwerk, here’s The Man Machine
Peter Frankis writes 
Very clever use of the word.
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Thanks, though having burned the rhubarb (carbonised), argued with partner and growled at dog, don’t feel very deserving of the word.
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LOL!
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I love this! Image and poem.
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Thanks Helen, glad you liked (the image is a hoot isn’t it – and Lightning Ridge is waaay out in the desert – so this was probably only church for many miles).
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Oh, YES. “new words required” indeed.
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I think we need more than a fix… we need a word for that
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hope?
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I like that last concluding line! Thanks for joining in.
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Love the image and the poem. Great work, Peter.
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