Archive for June, 2008
Family Values
“Family Values” was previously published in the book “When the Body Calls“, Writers and Readers, 1999.
My husband ran away
with the baby-sitter
and they both left
their dirty dishes in the sink.
The baby-sitter’s pregnant
her father disowned her
and my husband
ran away with the maid. Read more
No One is Here
I walk in a poem
late at night that sings no sober song,
no lyrics for the living,
toss in a few lines for the dead.
It fetters my anger
with hostility and sticky jam between
my toes and worn out shoes. Read more
No commentsStockhausen’s Cat
Prying? Who is crying
Up the coathanger tree
There. A frightened pussy
Lick a daisy! Hung up to dry.
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equUS
US equUS caballUS
Obamaverick broncobuster bucking uneven odds
Stacked against long shot steed
Dark horse of different color
No commentsRosebud
“Rosebud” was previously published in the book “When the Body Calls“, Writers and Readers, 1999. The soundtrack is from the CD “Living It!.
Like a tight wrapped rosebud
shy to Jack’s frosty fingers
beneath each layer of petals
falling away,
I am oblivious to all the signs
along the fast lane
as if I know secretly
some other route.
No commentsWe Want the Unbelievable
We want to achieve the unbelievable
and we make huge the simple,
unable to stand
neither the big we made leveled,
nor the small we did not value.
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Sterile Surfaces
Away from the lab-bench’s proving ground
The naked eye’s lame.
The moon’s heart
In an impulse swirls.
Triple-check – it’s far off,
No commentsNo, IT IS
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Current safe boundaries were once
Uncharted frontiers intrepid fearless voyager
Exploring remote vistas unknown spectrums
Daredevil venturing alone without maps
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Smith
A way with words.
They changed meaning, slipped
Through his fingers, formed haut relief,
Liquid lips, ripple to ripple.
No commentsSmitten
Peake-Pease-Peck-Peter
Who changes name with the weathercock
Stutters a fit, a pine
Of a pant,
No commentsFruits and Radicals
a non-peppery pepper
that’s not really a pepper
a misleading misnomer
of columbus courting the queen’s Read more
INSIGHT
illustration by Saknarin Chinayote
TENSION à ATTENTION
Pure consciousness freedom from thought
Divine inspiration curious awesome wonder
Intuitive awareness overwhelming perceptual senses
The is nothing to understand
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Antiquity Today
UNI-T42
UNI-T42
Barack to the Future imperfect
Tense burrowing through loose earthworm
Infested soil dirt thrown up
Mined molehills aerating fresh breath
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