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Homonyms


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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