The Absence of Wavelength

Ollie Over To My House?

Ollie Ollie oxen free.
Physi-physi-ognomy
Bright sparkle our dead wood.
Catch homunculi if I could.

Over over red rover.
The ball hides in the clover.
On which side of the house
Will I catch myself a mouse.

Cans now kicked down lonely road.
Burden, an invisible load.
No games or friends again today.
Mothers called them all away.


12 lines, traditional rhyming
1.28.23

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Physiognomy ▼

Phys·​i·​og·​no·​my" fiz-ē-ˈä(g)-nə-mē"
the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance.
the facial features held to show qualities of mind or character by their configuration or expression.Z

Homunculus ▼

Ho•mun•cu•lus" (həˈmʌŋ kyə ləs, hoʊ-)
a fully formed, miniature human body believed, according to some medical theories of the 16th and 17th centuries, to be contained in the spermatozoon.