Nextdoor Wildwood

I am looking for old newspapers. 

I am staying at home 

but only have a wood burning stove. 

Any help is appreciated. Please privately 

message me. Thank you. Lost Cat 

named October. Reward.

Or, if that doesn’t grab you, you may 

look for a landscaper that can overhaul 

my backyard in Beaver Valley. 

Cat washing. 

Sushi! Had a yummy Rainbow Shrimp roll 

and Sashimi for lunch. Help. My husband 

decided to take our burb out to play 

in the mud. He got himself stuck. 

We need some help getting out. Anyone 

with a 4x4 and some extra time? 

Wild animals. 

She slipped out the door 

during the storm. We were hoping she hunkered 

down under the porch, but it’s been two days 

and we’re really struggling. We’re super worried 

with the winter storm coming and praying. 

She is nine years old, spayed, 

very healthy, incredibly happy and friendly. 

She has tonight’s dinner ready in minutes. Very sweet 

lion head rabbit

found in my yard. Someone is missing this baby! 

Tell me collar color to claim. 

Safe in my hutch 

for now.

Just pulling out of the neighborhood 

to run an errand and what do I see 

jumping over the neighbors fence...mosquitos 

and no-seeums. They are hatching 

and biting my friends in the big ditch 

along the parkway. 

We have voles putting holes 

in our lawn, any idea how 

to humanely get rid of them? Catfish 

was excellent. I don't remember 

how much dinner for three cost. I can tell you 

the other local places 

that bathe cats. Thanks so much 

but, unless you are educated 

in veterinary science, I am going to

drop the ball. Were you looking 

for something different? Call me  

tomorrow. Coyotes.

I’m so sorry. I’ve seen them 

jump very high walls before. 

Sad to read.

A bear walks into a bar, says, Give me 

a whiskey and some domestic-sounding 

parrot-type bird screeching/calling 

the past few evenings 

around the corner 

of Easy and Matterhorn. 

Wonder if he is lost? 

I haven't seen him.

He got out this morning 

and is behind my house, but he knows 

where home is and will get there 

when he gets hungry. I saw an orange 

and black bird in the same area. 

Might have been parrot-like.

The folks who have the house now are not cat people, in fact 

they have severe allergies. 

 

Winged pet found 

in Woodhill. If you are looking 

must describe and have proof. 

Call me 

if you want Boots. 

He's a fine cat.

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text mostly from Nextdoor emails

screenshot from local Facebook group post

hobbled together for Weekly Scribblings #43: Found Poems and Erasures

Assumption

Early in the morning on the Museum of Shadows Day I twirled my your-bone rosary, your bones rattling in my brittle fingers, brittle as if a clear vision could bruise my skin, I sat in watercolor, I poured like a confession, my body smoked and swung like a censer between our empty rooms the smoke writhing, your bones joyous to feel movement, it has been a year since you felt the warmth of an organ in anguish, I twirled with you reanimated my snaky veins moving over your beads, I prayed to join you, my prayer free, flowering like a fracture

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Weekly Scribblings #42: About Those Bones... 

Branded

 “Seduction, during the Dust Bowl, was a handful of polished shells, maybe a white shoulder twinkling at the collarbone.” - Julie Haas, Consumed Moon: The Eclipse of Retail

 

work the perfume counter

    usher the blue-hairs towards their familiar scents 

swish your arm to showcase 

    the possibilities, the unbelievable

within a wallet’s reach, they will drop

to their knees before the altar

        under armour

                hot topic

                        radio shack

                                hobby lobby 

at the strip mall plaza 

    pantheon, they will drop

by the Painted Mirth and strike out

    in their Royal Flesh foundation 

blending sponge and blush 

 

let them consume themselves 

at the public mirror-brush brush swish and brush

        lucky brand

                dollar general

                        game stop  

                                banana republic

 

the old toil of harvest, of setting the sill logs

is fading from our knuckles, so work 

 

the register at The Forgotten Pallete, roll

those dented cans of low-sodium lentils across the red lasers, beep

beep and scan, dream on, and beep and scan

        home depot

                tractor supply

                        foot locker

                                american eagle

 

here at Tale of Lamps, we aim to light up the lives

of every person who walks through those doors, give

 

them the best possible lighting solutions for all

their home or office needs, be it in the bed,

in the bath, or beyond

they must confuse 

merchandise for charm

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dVerse - Poetics: The charms of Samuel Greenberg

apologies to The Pale Impromptu