by Ed Higgins
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
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Just playing around with homonyms. Along with a couple of concrete poetry pieces, "Homonyms" is in Angry Old Man: A Magazine of Experimental Art & Poetry, Drew B. David, editor, Issue 2, 2018, https://angryoldmanmagazine.com/ed-higgins/
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Good fun! "Caret/Carrot" !!
Cool/Kool
Clever by half/
menthol notwithstanding
Nice! I love word play and oblique strategies. Interesting, stimulating.