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Excerpt from Mrs. Curmoppity
by Elinor Teele © 2010 | Contact
Mrs. Curmoppity had a small stall
in the market within the town square.
Mrs. Curmoppity stood five feet tall,
a live parrot perched high in her hair.
She sold knick-knacks and brick-bracks, a copper coin hoard,
an ancient tea kettle that wheezed,
toy lions that roared and dragons that snored
or scorched the stall’s walls when they sneezed.
Excerpt from Lola and Loma
by Elinor Teele © 2010 | Contact
Lola and Loma lived up on a hill,
far from the bustle of town.
Lola and Loma were of the same will:
they both wished the other would drown.
While one would just howl, the other, like owl,
would screech and would shriek every jeer.
Though they lived cheek to jowl, their words were plain foul,
and truly not fit for young ears.
Excerpt from Scoot Newt
by Elinor Teele © 2010 | Contact
Scoot Newt, the town mute, was often in tears
of laughter from all that he heard.
Scoot Newt, the town mute, was subject to sneers
of people who thought him absurd.
He loved a truck's horn, the swish swish of corn,
the wail of the sea in a gale,
a puppy newborn, a leaf being torn,
the wham! of a hammer on nail.
Excerpt from Miss Purdy-Sue Plether
by Elinor Teele © 2010 | Contact
Miss Purdy-Sue Plether could alter the weather
though no one was quite sure of how.
But what, why or whether, when taken together,
her whims made the weather right now.
One morn she might spy a new weetlefly,
and rainbows would burst from the ground.
One week she might find her reading quite dry
and crops would sink down in drought drowned.
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