Letter Boxed November 24, 2022 Answers

A bit frustrated with the austerity of the past two days’ offerings, I give thanks to the fabulously generous letters of November 20th. This poem uses only thirteen letters– the twelve from that day plus ’n’:
aeioucfm(n)prst
A single asterisk notes some of our two-word solutions.
Double asterisks note some three-word solutions.
The triple asterisk is a four-word solution (that cheats a little bit).
Happy November 24th!

FOUR PRAISES

First:
Praise! epicurious screamfests*
On semiotic cusps as potent
As turmeric or primrose stems,
Fine as fescue; ancient
As Ur; scrumptious as pomfret
Or trout.
Our curator roams atop permafrost,
A ruse to outperform mimicries,*
Or profer priorities:
“If fretsome, espouse erotica**as prosaic
as an Orca’s spermous spasm, or as runic
as curious spirits in a storm.”

Praise afore:
Irate emeritus sceptics, suspicious**
Of improprieties, (or meritorious factors)
Feast on timorous perpetuities,
Or copies of some apomictic creatures. Soft**
Furies smote suspicious**
Forfeiture. In mimetic opacities,
Our preposterous script ripens.

Praise after:
A capricious screamer refuses**
A prostitute’s scorn,
A prosecuter’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?

Postscript:
An auspicious surfer recaptures some***
Ancient totems, repairs
A foremast, remaps
Riparian forests, rescripts
Our stormiest escapes into
(in)famous scripture.*
Praise! A picture of Protean rescue, at sea.

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Happy Thanksgiving!