7+7

Dr Q

Cover by Dr Q: a soft pink ground with the title 7+7 in bright spring green at the top, and beneath it, handwritten in black and red, the equation 1+1= with the 1 of the answer struck through and replaced by 2.

Dr Q has done it again – written a book of poetry where pandemonium and repose share the same sofa and watch rain paint cartoons on the windows.

This time, she ordered both into strict word and syllable counts, introducing a new form — the Qku, a 7+7 format. The 7+7 is very simple— seven words followed by seven syllables. Easy.

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Poems

  1. Speak The Thing into Existence
  2. Hacking Hedges
  3. Queen Jellybean
  4. Jack The Blue
  5. Little Journey Today
  6. Remembrances
  7. Completely Wrung Out
  8. They Thought I Didn’t Notice
  9. I’ll Take the Burnt Slice
  10. Steeping a Moment of Songs
  11. Treating a Friend’s PTSD Like a Punchline
  12. Pandas Will Share the Road But Not the Food
  13. She Wears Pretty Shoes
  14. My Mother’s Favorite Foods
  15. Children Are Straight Shooters
  16. Red Embellished Butts
  17. Dorothy Scoffs at Bots, Prefers Disasters That Breathe
  18. The Anti-Hero Talks Cars
  19. You Can Hear The Hophornbeam
  20. During the Storm
  21. Everything Still
  22. Femurs and Skulls, Stacked
  23. The Crush of Colors
  24. Rats Don’t Wear Pajamas
  25. Ordering From Amazon Prime
  26. Ode to My Paramour
  27. In the Month of September
  28. The Tower Among Rooftops
  29. With A Flick Of The Wrist
  30. Cycles, Big or Small, Do They End?
  31. The Night The Stars Did Not Align
  32. Fifty Cent Words
  33. The Refugee
  34. A Delicious Fish Dumpling
  35. Stubble and Fall
  36. Feather In His Hat
  37. cummingsesque
  38. The Hottest Splash
  39. Ripening
  40. Inside The Porsche
  41. Morticia
  42. My Childhood Home
  43. The Palette of Poverty Written in Verse
  44. Grounds Coup at the White House
  45. Ennui
  46. The Massacre of a May December Love
  47. It Has No Shaft
  48. What Does It Mean, Who Are You?
  49. Some Words Have Big Egos