Tuesday, March 22, 2022

"this old man, he threw bricks..."
no, that's not how the song goes
even after the bombs fell
and so many of us died
he never changed his tune

Monday, March 14, 2022

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ~Pablo Neruda*





Nevermind you've forgotten
your camera.
For them, it's all about
survival--the robins
leafing through spring's journal.




*While I like Neruda's quote, I do not share his political beliefs, especially his embrace of communism and Stalin.

Sunday, January 30, 2022

black-coated scratchboards
we create our own
vision
of radio filaments 
found in the milky way

Friday, January 21, 2022

restless pacing
the jangled nerves
of throwaway keys
how being stressed out
starts on the inside


it's not the steps
or the four flights of stairs
to room 458--
what bothers me is knowing
that you won't be there

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

the machine precision
of cubed carrots
in canned vegetable soup
one man's first step
towards bachelorhood

Sunday, January 16, 2022

revised tanka:


january ballet

of dancing on ice

no one has trained me

how to fall or how to fail

gracefully


original version:


surviving the latest storm

I slide down the ice

on the driveway

and regain my footing 

in the snow

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

the test results

on my phone ignored

day of the dead hike

one last hill to climb

before going home


Saturday, October 30, 2021

haunted hayride

the ghosts of headlights

on a divided highway

the civil war cave buried

under this road


*The cave was located near Powder Valley Conservation area. It was destroyed during the construction of Highway 270.

Saturday, September 11, 2021

I'm sure there was cake

and a balloon or two

I'll keep singing, "Happy Birthday,"

even though you stopped listening

a long time ago