Letter Boxed November 23, 2023 Answers

I thought I would repost last year’s “thanksgiving” poem, which uses only thirteen letters– the twelve from that day’s LB, plus ’n’: acefim(n)oprstu
Giving thanks to all of you.

24 November 2022
FOUR PRAISES

1. (first)
Praise! epicurious screamfests*
on semiotic cusps as potent
as turmeric or primrose stems,
as fine as fescue, as ancient
as Ur; as scrumptious as pomfret or trout.
Our curator roams atop permafrost,
a ruse to outperform mimicries,*
or proffer priorities:
“If fretsome, espouse erotica** as prosaic
as an Orca’s spermous spasm, or as runic
as curious spirits in a storm.”

2. (afore)
Irate emeritus sceptics, suspicious**
of improprieties (or meritorious factors),
feast on timorous perpetuities,
copies of some apomictic creatures. Soft**
furies smote suspicious**
forfeiture. In mimetic opacities,
our preposterous script ripens.

3. (after)
A capricious screamer refuses**
a prostitute’s scorn,
a protestor’s prose,
a sorcerer’s scam–
refutes our semi-pious future plan.
So: are America’s surfeit torpors**
a pernicious Faustian feast,
or an untrue utopian tease?

4. (postscript)
An auspicious surfer recaptures some***
ancient totems, repairs
a foremast, remaps
a forest, rescripts
our stormiest escapes into
(in)famous scripture.*
Praise! A picture of Protean rescue, at sea.

* a few of our group’s two-word solutions
** some three-word solutions

YUKES* – STRONGARM.

Guarantors-Smokey Picture a room full of cigar-smoking bankers.

sturgeons – skymark

My eyes found “turkey” immediately as I watch the Macy’s Parade. From there it was easy.

STURGEONS-SKYMAN

Gastronomes Skunky