CAPE RUT / APT CURES / ACUTE TRAPS
Royalty is a card game in which players “meld” and “capture” words. To meld is to link letters together to construct a word. A soldering of sorts. To capture a word is to rob the word someone has melded and to rearrange it into a new word. Each player has seven cards in her hand at a time (replenished after each "meld" and/or "capture) until the cards are exhausted (tired).
ex. C A T
T A C K Y
ex. P I R A T E
P R I V A T E E R
ex. F A R
R A F T
F A R T E D
D R A F T E D
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N A P S / P L A N S / P L A I N S
U L E / M U L E / F L U M E
C O N / C O U N T
R A W / W A R M S
R A R E / B A R R E L
P E T / P A T É / P A T E N T / P A T I E N T
Y O U / B U O Y
O A K
A N Y / N A V Y / V A N I T Y
N E T / T I N E
O A R / L O A F E R
V E X
H U E
J I V E
D A R E / R A G E D
B O R E D
J O Y
W I D E / W I E L D
C O D
H A T / T H A N
leftovers: I Z Y O I Q Q Z X
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YULE-tide ULE tree YOU’ll treat me
to PATÉ and crumb-PETS a tongue
will lure from crates of teeth
One NAPS in the RAW
a BORED DARE if you COUNT
the PATIENT more PATIENT
THAN a HAT
who CONs a WIDE JOY
into a LOAFER
to narrow that JOY
NAVY WARMS to a RAREr HUE
a MULE PATENTs a field:
a NETwork of OAK
If there’s ANY VANITY left
the nose is no BUOY
on the lake of YOUr face
but a cheekbone as a COD
curved in paddling is okay
The watery TINEs of some falls
stab at spectacle: a BARREL
turned burial
Either OAR for a coaxing wave
Either OAR for hooking debris
A JIVE VEXes the PLAINS
calls dust up a bust-up
of wind (reminiscent of when…)
A bowl a bowl and a FLUME
From a BARREL to a hole in
a replica of a log
a body plugs plunges
willfully a willed falling
PLANS RAGED on
No comPLAINtS BARRELed out
though some VANITY DAREd a complaint
to face it to deface it
To WIELD and will a skinning
A kin-making bareness, o baroness of blankness
©
is the author of Hush Sessions
Maxwell’s poem “Game 1 (36 words [=36 lines])” also appears in this issue.
