Homonyms
Ascent/Assent
Together the horizon/
Catechism of love
Coarse/Course
Summer’s line-dried towels/
Sun-rubs across her shoulders
Break/Brake
Wind through fir trees/
Tethered coastal hills
Access/Excess
Clarity hath its savor/
Drenched in metallic taste
Whose/Who’s
The mind’s wildness/
Traced in mixed chalk
Maybe/ May be
In our always pain/
Claims to the stubborn
Pair/Pare
Walking this shore/
Tide swells cutting sand
Dual/Duel
Eyes read red/
Then we stop
bare/bear
In the woods pants down/
Ursine approaching
beer/bier:
death as micro-brew/
brewing puts you here
boar/boor
invasive wild pig/
inedible, invasive speech sounds
booze/boos
hammered on cheap rotgut/
wasted on disparaging
but/butt:
qualifying conjunction/
conjoined physical conjunction halves
caret/carrot
proofreader’s lifted eyebrow/
vegan orange root-for eating
cell/sell
smartphone zombies found here/
brain-eating price smart phones sell for
BIO
Says Ed Higgins:
My poems and short fiction have appeared in various print and online journals including: Monkeybicycle, Uut Poetry,Tattoo Highway, Triggerfish Critical Review, and Danse Macabre, among others. My wife and I live on a small organic farm in Yamhill, OR, raising a menagerie of animals including an alpaca named Machu-Picchu. I’m also Asst. Fiction Editor for Ireland-based Brilliant Flash Fiction.
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