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Two submissions from the August 2026 meeting of the Abilene Writers Guild.

Uninformed

by Julie Frybarger

Go…
withdraw…
Don’t suspend belief
Don’t breathe a sigh of relief

Watch the bottleneck of today’s cultural insanity
Sought by socialists for their intellectual vanity

These monitory yet exemplary prevarications
Are loudly continuing to defy real explanations
Like chain mail letters to select destinations
Reaching the gullible, uninformed delegations

Text World

by Linda Gordon

Some think I'm gullible, I know,
In my daily trek to check the mail
Where a bottleneck of flyers grow.
I reach in, withdraw it all…but to no avail
No exemplary letters…I look askant
At all the address destinations marked "occupant."

Words: nosy, forbid, mulled, travel, unravel, submission

Unraveled

by Linda Gordon

In my new sweater, sitting cosy,
Drinking my tea,
I daydreamed and mulled
As my cat became nosy
About a fray I didn’t see
She pulled
She undid
Before I could forbid
She quickly traveled
The hooked yarn unraveled
The yarn, without cognition
Followed in submission
Neither with any contrition

Rosie’s Last Hope

by Nancy Forbis-Stokes

When her boyfriend had to travel for work, he forbade Rosie to leave the house, expecting her usual submission. She mulled over approaching Anne, the neighbor her boyfriend called “nosy.” Had Anne unraveled the cause of her bruises? Rosie knocked on Anne’s door. Opening it, Anne cried, “Let me help!”