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Well, I tried an annagram with my name, Laurence Rogers Wood, and a completely foolish poem emerged.

Electrosurgery overencourages

Clearinghouse of resurrection

Unresearched, overreliance

Nuclear power, scare mongers

Arborescent auctioneers,

Carmagnoles casseroling

Cryosurgeon congregates

Encroachers and encouragers

Barbecuers and beachgoers,

Evergreens, ferrocenes,

Escargots escarping

Eurocreeps exchanges,

Generous generals

Sourcing suncream

Scrooges unsecure,

Garlics unclogs

Secular scourges...

A Poem that never ends.

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Casseroling is my new favorite verb! This is such fun!

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I tried the backward poem, but it did not work and this nagging thought of why Lost and Unidentified keys come to be.

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Small shapes hanging on small hooks,

wooden board shaped like a house,

holding the keys to everywhere

and nowhere.

^

After all these years, these mystery keys

waiting for that particular door,

the special car or truck,

bike lock, canoe cable,

luggage security,

houses long left behind,

offices no longer a part of this life.

^

The jangle of metal on keychain,

importance measured in sheer numbers,

wisdom and age reflected in how many keys

dangle unidentified like single gloves,

solitary socks or that dish

without a spoon.

^

Until that day arrives

the decree is unfurled,

and these lost and lonely keys must go,

to that quiet care facility,

waiting for the revolutionary recycler,

to resurrect them into new life.

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I love this! It’s so fun to think about the stories our key collections tell.

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My wife is leaning strong towards "PEE PAW", but we will see what the new guy has to say.

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Haha Pee Paw! I'm with her. ;)

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YAM 22

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🙂🙂🙂!!!!EEPOOOOOWH!!!!🙂🙂🙂

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Snoitalutargnoc, Kcuhc!!!!!

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WOW WOW WOW! Or, said backwards, !WOW WOW WOW

Big congrats to you, Chuck!

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Good news indeed! My granddad name is Nali. What’s yours, Chuck?

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It's another long'un. As luck/serendipity would have it, the same day Lisa made this post, I cleaned out a basket of "artifacts" dating back to when I first moved into my house in 2018. I'm calling it "Stratigraphic Excavation of the Basket by the Door."

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The first thing to note is the surface:

that zone where the days are still

peeling off page by page. Here lies

spaghetti of dog collars, car keys, headlamps,

and leashes, twirled every few hours on

the same busy fork.

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Next we have recent history: last month's

oil change, last year’s rabies certificate,

homeowner pamphlets from after you

settled in enough to think about landscaping.

Excavate and record: 2023-2024.

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Older car jobs: the clutch. Older dog jobs:

the one you lost. Paint swatches for the

kitchen, before you asked them to just

color-match a brown paper bag.

2020-2022: the fuck-it phase.

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Intrusions here and there: pet waste bags

and their halo of static, spent batteries,

paper clips, stray receipts, Christmas cards,

and a messy nest of rubber bands, one for

every 12 eggs consumed since 2018.

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Your trowel will know the first layer

when it gets there; it is almost bare dirt.

Invoices suggesting you would survive

the winter – a woodstove, windows. A letter

from the principal: your son, the new kid,

had a fight. Cards from your mother and

grandmother asking how they would ever

find you in the hinterlands. Paperwork

from the sale. And a key chain scrawled

with your address. It, and its charge,

had been left without fanfare under a brick

by the door the day you took possession

of this life,

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the one that spins around you in full color

every day, still a delight upon waking,

its contexts long since spilled from

the basket and telling the story

in real time.

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What a fabulous title! I love the tone of this poem and am especially taken with the first stanza. “Here lies

spaghetti of dog collars, car keys, headlamps,

and leashes, twirled every few hours on

the same busy fork” - so good!

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I love this Rebekah! You have such a creative, brilliant and beautiful mind! Your title is one of the best ever! I like how each paragraph takes us into glimpses of your life over a span of time, but even more delightful snapshots of you! I so appreciate the keen, kind and kinetic eye and spirit you bring to the world. It is our joy moving along a bit of the journey with you!

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We have a Golden doodle as well, Boomer the apricot dipsy doodle. It could be teid detaler. Try him on a small bag of Orijen god doof and see what happens to eht seirrebelgnid. thanks, that was fun.

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Hahaha! This had me laughing out loud. Thank you, Weston!

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You’ve outdone yourself, Lisa! Or should I say flesrouy enodtuo evouy!

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Knaht uoy, dneirf!

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Thank you for the smiles you create in my heart and body every day! I believe you have uncovered a new substack group: the backward speakers!

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So awesome.

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Thank you so much, Margaret Ann! 💚

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I love this so much. I, too, have had to remove dingleberries. 🤣

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I can’t decide if I’m happy not to be alone in this or just disturbed that so many of us do this and still choose to have dogs! 😂

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Haha! Cats can get dingleberries too. Don't even ask me how I know.

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Lol! It makes me think of a comic I've seen where aliens land on the earth and look around and determine that dogs and cats are clearly in charge here, since the humans are following them around, cleaning up their feces.

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One of the universal truths--pets rule everywhere!

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I think dingleberries means something different to you than to me.

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Well, I’m definitely not referring to cranberries, haha! Or incompetent humans.

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Cleaning away dingleberries is highly metaphoric, IMO.

Two days past my birthday and still in highly introspective state.

Thank you for your response.

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Happy belated birthday, Jim! May it be a year rich with metaphors and introspection!

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Had too many shots at our neighborhood party last night to read backwards! I’ll check this out tomorrow!

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Haha, yes, hangovers and backwards reading don’t mix well!

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