Caveat: Poem #3482 "Spots of white on blue-grey"
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Ice.
Frozen
fresh water
floats on the sea,
placed there by the river and the cold air.
- a tetractys.
https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2026/02/18/caveat-poem-3482/
Caveat: Poem #3482 "Spots of white on blue-grey"
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Ice.
Frozen
fresh water
floats on the sea,
placed there by the river and the cold air.
- a tetractys.
https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2026/02/18/caveat-poem-3482/
Caveat: Poem #3481 "The acme of geology"
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Here,
you see
this one rock,
among its peers,
more average than most rocks - distinctive.
- a tetratys.
https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2026/02/17/caveat-poem-3481/
Caveat: Poem #3475 "Must be in the gearing mechanism"
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Slow,
steady...
but progress?
No, not really.
The treadmill of life propels us sideways.
- a tetractys.
https://caveatdumptruck.com/index.php/2026/02/11/caveat-poem-3475/
rest.
the heat
takes it all
away from you;
a dry wind chuckles across the desert.
look
out there
somewhere else
anywhere else
everywhere else is better than right here
Oh!
I say!
Pardon me!
That's it, really.
Party membership includes a free pass!
they
don't know,
never felt,
a drought deeply,
to wither, and dry, and lapse into dust.
once
the rain
the flowers
the liveliness
now only a hazy recollection
scratched
and clawed
by an old
giant's fingers
this desolate, irregular landscape
scrawled
upon
scrap paper
a pleading note;
found, carefully read, and then discarded.