Poetry Month: Scrapbag

Like quilters of a century past, I am going to be keeping words, phrases and images in a scrap bag, right here, for those days when a poem, even a first draft of a poem, just doesn't seem to want to emerge.  

 1.  In Parma, cheese farmers used to use a cow bone to test cheese.

2.  In Texas, people retrofit dryers to make tortillas.  

3.  "credenza" is a word we should never stop using.  That, and "piazza."

4.  A scrap: 

 Lanette threw down the gauntlet

but the wind  boomeranged it across the yard.

it sliced my xeriscaped grasses,

 and Paul's statue of the bard,

the foxes ran for cover under the old tool shed; 

and the clutch of deer

ducked 

before their antlers were lopped off their heads.

Comments

[Lanette]

Clearly, you wanted to use the word "gauntlet."