Tree in the Door's Fauna and Flora: OTI:eight poems and notes:6/19/17

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Sometimes,

Sometimes all I want

Is a peanut butter

And jelly sandwich

With a glass of milk.

Sink Hole

Around the Bubble

Around the Last Town

The land was devastated,

Covered with what looked like

So many giant gopher hole

Entry mounds being pushed

Up with earth and stony rubble.

The Automatons were busy

Burrowing,
Intent on making a giant void
Beneath the Last Town,
Collapsing it into a giant sink hole,

And took little notice

Of the arrival of Shades

Orpheus and Eurydice

Riding Dragons Cadmus

And Harmonia.

In concealment among

The thrown up earth mounds

About,

Harmonia and Cadmus

Waited beside the Bubble's

Transparent wall,

A barrier to them

And anyone and everything

Except the Dead.

Orpheus and Eurydice easily

Had walked right through it

To make a reconnoiter,

Listening in invisibly

On the Council's discussions.

But small buzzing Automaton

Scouts sighted

Cadmus and Harmonia,

Reported,

And Automatons emerged

From the earth to give chase

As Orpheus and Eurydice

Rejoined Dragons
Harmonia and Cadmus.

Tincture

"Earthbound, the Automatons

Chased us until

We reached the Sea's edge,

Thousands of tiny buzzing flying

Things bedeviling

Harmonia and Cadmus,

Their white armor shielding them.

They left off at the shoreline as well."
Said Orpheus.

Nemo, with his

And Petra's and Jason's crews

Astride their Black Dragons

Astride the gathered White Whales

Listened,

And Nemo made a wan smile, said,

"They fear the Seas

Tinted with tinctures of

All manner of things

From the wars."

With this
The White Whales agreed

In the tinted swells

Unhappily miserably swimming.

"Patience, "

Nemo said to the Whales.

"This shouldn't take long.

Hephaestus studies a captive

Automaton, and may,

When he stops going on

About their wonders,

Find a way to counter them."

"Just so." said Hephaestus, smiling.

"King Benitoite and the Council

Came up with an idea."

Said Orpheus

"We overheard, but made

No interruption.

Their idea brought to mind

Hephaestus' lyres

That sang my tune

And so entranced the

Black Dragons.

They have the idea

To make the Automatons

Laugh

And so divert them

And make escape aboard

The Black Spaceships."

"Automatons are a humorless lot."

Said Hephaestus.

"A good laugh may do the trick."

"Yes, but a Stone

Is the real trick they need."

Said Cadmus.

"Just so." said Jason.

Nemo considered,

"A Laugh will do.

The Automatons have work to do

To restore the Earth.

To the limits of knowing

They arrived too quickly,

Something different,

A simple laugh

Can make all the difference

And suffice a quarrel.

Medea, have you a spell?"

Medea astride Black Dragon Onyx

Was blended in with the crews,

Avoiding Jason and Glauce.

Glauce looked to Jason.

"A joke for Hepaestus to fashion

An Automaton laugh?"

Asked Medea of Nemo.

"Just so." said Nemo.

Medea thought,

Looked long at Hephaestus,

And said,

"I love you, Hephaestus."

Hephaestus didn't know

Whether to laugh or weep.

Orpheus picked up.

"I have your tune, Hephaestus!"

Orpheus said.

"Just so." said Hephaestus,

"We will all sing it to the

Captive Automaton.

What one hears

They all hear."

Ware

While the Automatons

Laughed themselves silly,

The Black Spaceships descended,

Gathered aboard

All the Seeds and Books

From the Vaults,

And the last of Humankind

From the Last Town

Inside the Bubble,

And followed Nemo

And all the crews

Astride the White Whales

Diving deep within

The deep blue sea

To find a Black Rose

And another when

Another ware
Prometheus and Epimetheus made

Free from Zeus.

Beside The Creek

"You are beautiful, Petra."

Said Dana.

Ishmael tilted his gaze

To see Petra's reflection
In the slow streaming water.

"Like a blue sky day."

Said Ishmael.

Petra seated between them,

Beside the Creek,

Smiled and laughed,
Said,
"Where did that come from?"

Done Is Done

Aboard Black Ship Argo

Before Medea and Hephaestus

Astride Black Dragon Onyx

Jason held Glauce close.

"Done is done".

Said Jason and Glauce.

And Medea laughed.

Tale

"I saw Black Dragon Ametrine."

Said Black Dragon Onyx

To Infant Black Dragon Ametrine.

"And King Benitoite was riding him."

Said Medea to infant Benitoite.

And the infants laughed and laughed

Together hearing the Tale.

Dread

Somewhere

I imagine

A hacker

With the moniker

Stone.

DolphinWords

Notes: oh, to escape the heat, I rolled over to Regal and saw moviePiratesOfTheCarribeanDeadMenTellNoTales2017...it is just as entertaining a second time!...both times I thought on the odd décor of Pirate Barbarossa's Pirate Ship...the deck is awash with treasures, his cabin all gold decorated...he's clearly in Pirate heaven, with a fleet of ships bringing him loot...there is such a place, I learn. land bound as it were, inside a protective alliance, a bubble!, of priests, nobility, royalty, and an agreeing population...agreeing in that they just don't storm the place and take the treasures, which have been protected for centuries by tradition and religious awe...its vaults may contain golden artifacts going back to the ancient Greeks...all in all, this 'ship' carries treasure valued in the trillions...and historical things of interest even more valuable...I'd never heard of it before, but following along the youTube 'ancient mystery' clips, happened upon it...the constellation in Pirates is the Southern Cross, I think...which appears on New Zealand's flag...to find things one needs a treasure map...the 'Dragon's Tooth' I'm thinking of may have just been a stone...that part where Jason throws something on the ground to set the risen skeletons upon one another...brb...yeah...it was a stone...and Cadmus threw it, and Jason too I think...brb...oh...Cadmus confronted half of the dragon's teeth, Jason the other half in his adventure...both threw a stone...that is curious!...a parallel overlap!...anyway, by Dragon Tooth, I mean these 'stones'...and just changed 'dragon tooth' to 'stone'...a reach!...how tall should a step be?...I ellipsed out a whole 'fragment' that went on and on with the Homeridae discussing under the Bubble the conflict with the Automatons, and how the Automatons were burrowing under them to drop them into a sink hole...thinking on this while reading yet another dire report about the nuclear power plant disaster at Fukishima, I thought, maybe they could rescue matters by dropping the whole mess into just a fashioned sink hole, and covering it up!...a bit overboard, and then scared myself thinking they might use an underground nuclear explosion to make the sink hole!...Michael Crichton left behind a new novel that just came out called the Dragon's Teeth based on the Old West Bone Wars, a time when paleontologists were fiercely competing, and burrowing, to find dinosaurs!...

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