Sunday, November 20, 2016

Suddenly-tufted monostich




All around it           palm trees

grew up,   fifty, sixty       feet tall,


suddenly     t u f t e d


at the top.



[-- Horace McCoy, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They (1935) ]



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~  Posthumous Endorsement ~
"If I was alive today, and hankering for a noir,
this is what I'd be reading: "
(My name is McCoy,
and I approved this message.)
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