Friday, March 29, 2013


Magic Carpet

Ride the weavings
our lives ever heaving
it weaves itself
intertwining

Monday, March 4, 2013

Caprese


Caprese

Fresh mozzarella
ripe red tomato
fresh basil leaves

I dribble on
chocolate balsamic 
late night snack

I can’t share with the dog
curses chocolate balsamic
tomato, basil, mozzarella cheese

I Don't Know How


I Don’t Know How

I don’t know how
I’m gonna make it
I feel I’m falling down

I need attitude adjustment
maybe I’ll just fall down
I don’t know how

I’m gonna make it
I feel I’m falling down
I don’t know how

Attitude adjustment
it must be the plan
how do I do it
it must be the plan
I don’t know how

Sonnet


Sonnet

Oh to write a sonnet
just like Shakespeare
I strive to come close

Oh to write a sonnet
like the Bard himself
oh to write a sonnet

in sonnets much divulged
a play in four acts
modern day soap opera

Except with no class
take me back to 
Shakespeare on the run
writing fast
writing fast

Today


Today
pack 
tomorrow flight
I’m running away
let me out of dark
but no, I am picking my Dad up
spiriting him out of winter to sit in sun on my Florida lanai
sea, salt, fish, cypress swamp, birds, nests, gray moss, lichen, red, green, silver,  sun glint, paradise with alligators waiting for prey


Sunday, March 3, 2013

We


We

We were 
fourteen
years apart
little brother
and me

We went to
a drive-in-movie
you got me stoned
we had to go home
to Mom


Tides


Resistance

Why do I resist
I am sovereign
tides have turned
It is up to me

It is up to me
tides have turned
I am sovereign
Why do I resist

Rachel


Arroyo Secco

We went there 
in her Woody
green and brown
down dusty road
curved around
to bottom at the
canyon




On A Day


Sun illuminates
blue dust as it filters
in windows
in gasps I stare at
sorrow and decline
to ride on river Styx 

I am blessed 
to live in the instant
slap myself if I falter
refuse the snare
unbalance presses
deserves no notice

I don’t want first 
to sink in misery
want second to
ride wings looking
down at beauty
required from height