4th period composition (13+) # 1533259:
Certain dreams I wish I could remember/ certain nightmares I wish I had forgot
Inauguration (E) # 1518306:
We bury the burdens of these treacherous times/ We lay them down, no longer ours.
Grey silhouettes (13+) # 1513831:
we left them then/ cold, naked in the rain/ knowing only time would cleanse the stench
May Thirteenth (18+) # 1484386:
93 short poems/prose written May 13, 2005 and being revised.
Paved paradise (13+) # 1402322:
haibun: paved paradise / seen from the bus: / miles of human scrap
This house (E) # 1375904:
the house will gleam anew,/ jaundiced clapboards covered by a sea of blue.
Two suns (ASR) # 1375899:
I will never create such beauty,/ bring forth the radiance of your two suns.
God's Arse (18+) # 1375892:
saw mirrored deep in our bird-poop eyes,/ the awesome Face of God.
Not Tom, Not Jerry (E) # 1375887:
The old grey siamese / chases the mouse that chomps on the cheese,
The Way Home (E) # 1375883:
In her hand circling over her heart; in her reach, an attempt to touch this child:
Melody of wings (13+) # 1361427:
She sings of longing for her missing mate;/ she'll sing long past his passing.
For all the Sons of Ice (13+) # 1359203:
with frozen icicle hands,/ and see-through eyes, a parent/ transparent as crisp blue sky,
Skye (13+) # 1358712:
A wisp of smoke flutters against the sky/ as an orange flicker of flame
Grizz fan (18+) # 1358711:
Luscious,/ soft-centered,/ maroon and grizzly,
December's bath (13+) # 1358323:
... waves waves waves .../ splash over my thighs,/ slow to ripples/ that caress my chest.
Victoria's secrets (18+) # 1316727:
Pickled puppies in a row of mason jars
adorn her shelves. Her gnomes know nothing.
Ash and dung (18+) # 1316713:
222 gps. Voices that once annoyed me ceased to call ...
August (13+) # 1306259:
Sweet-sour reminder from a month / that bites.
Sentinel (ASR) # 1306255:
The Sentinel, looms above Missoula, Montana and the University of Montana.
Sorting task (13+) # 1300088:
Surrounded by the lies that let us live, // Which one's mine? / Which one's yours?
Drugs sold here (18+) # 1300074:
An invitation to buy, / a warning to leave, / addicted to dawn.
Canvas of a May day (ASR) # 1273600:
Here where lawns / defend themselves with chiggers / my tired eyelids flutter
Flood of '93 (18+) # 1273156:
White frosted chocolate / mud flows like water / under the bridge / to visit Kansas City,
Paper cut (13+) # 1257684:
A word slides across the surface, /a slice of venomous brush
Paradise (E) # 1255793:
heel-ball, heel-ball, /their snap of fingers /twirling in the shadows /cast by sun.
Mauve Mavis (ASR) # 1252037:
Along the lanes: charcoal slated roofs, / black timbers, puce pocked stone,
Palette of Pastels (13+) # 1248994:
softening to your calming touch / as grey becomes a pussywillow fog,
Flight of the unwanted son (13+) # 1246158:
he soared beyond the roof-lines of constraint / and veered towards mountains' aspiration
Susan-of-the-waves (ASR) # 1243432:
And the waves wash over wants, / sort out the memories by size and taste
Song of an Age (ASR) # 1237152:
He who loves from his heart dies too,
but its beat holds the song of an Age.
Love-lies-bleeding (13+) # 1230081:
"we pose a pietà: you the designated Madonna, me?" Amaranthus caudatus
Spear (13+) # 1230020:
Heroic poem in vocative voice. "O Spear, son of Spear and son the Oak stream's daughter"