new carapace, old style

3 days old
egg tooth intact
big head
bumpbacked

about the size of
a fifty cent piece

attractive nuisance

Detailed closeup of magnetic structures on the Sun's surface, seen in the H-alpha wavelength on August 22, 2003.

(Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) operated by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Oddbjorn Engvold, Jun Elin Wiik, Luc Rouppe van der Voort)

afloat, afoot

wiki -- watch me,
wafting doggerel.
willy all around, while
woody-pecker would,
no doubt and
probably wobbling
on our wobbly world,
wrung out, worn again.


with water weary wear-and-tear
wrought irony. tears, afloat, afoot,
away, my barking war mongrel.