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Keith Nunes

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Colourful language

The pristine purpling of prideful patois
The florid bellowing of oranges and lemons
Instilled with tints/dappling/phiz

Pigmenting by numbers
On a wash of dialogue

Speak and you’ll be blushed by splashing
Wrapping tongues around rouge/rubify/rubricate

The stains of shouted shading
Imbued with lustrous leanings of love

Colourisation draws in the semantic complexity
Of chroma/complexion
Drawn to a last-word-closure
With a colour swab all lacquered and dyed

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Distinctly indistinct

Awkwardly immobile
Causes super-glued on
To comic strip lapels
‘I’ll grant you a hybrid is tough to dislodge’ says he

Her blueberry face
Lightening with age
‘Whichever war
There are always medics’ says she

They change the air
Carry it to the open wound
Set it free on the breeze-away
‘Now who’s breathing’ says she rhetorically

Percussional tap on hollow head
‘See
See
Told you everything
Wants to escape’ says he sensing a great loss of direction

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The Savvy they Savour

The adept
                     Strap
                                On
                                        Scissory
                                                        Tongues
                                         Grip
                     Hyper
Real
             Success-con
                                     Mode
                                                    B               Leave
                                                                                     In
                                                                                             In-fini-tee

Take
Up
Collections
For
Pockets
Anonymous

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Keith Nunes lives in tiny Pahiatua (New Zealand). He was nominated for the Best Small Fictions 2019, the Pushcart Prize and won the 2017 Flash Frontier Short Fiction Writing Award. He’s had poetry, haiku and short fiction published around the globe and his Asemic Writing and Foto-Poetry has been published in literary journals in New Zealand, Australia and the United States.
 
 
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