If Only.......

A group of rowdy ravens
Makes a ruckus in the locust trees
Up at the county Airpark-
Funny that I remember a line from Jon Pearl
"It'd be great to be a big black bird
Carousing in a summer sky--
But then you'd have to eat BUGS"

Let's Go To Mars

Now it's been proposed that because of climate change the human race had better get busy exploring the possibility of relocating to other planets.... In fact British billionaire Richard Branson is contemplating a voyage to Mars for this purpose and over 200,000 have already signed the waiting list! I find it hard to fathom that so many have signed up for a one-way trip to the red planet that will take months to reach. I think the large majority will soon grow restless & find themselves homesick for green meadows & flowing rivers when they get to a bleak sandy desert that most of the time is below 0 degrees Fahrenheit, breathing manufactured oxygen. I'll support them, but I think their "heroism" in taking the race to some new frontier is misplaced. This planet is ideally suited for human beings, both materially & spiritually. If we took better care of it & appreciated it more, we'd find a Garden of Eden right in front of us. IMHO, people riding around in spaceships to points unknown in the galaxy to check them out will find themselves bored, lonesome & dreaming of home. We better change our consciousness because, if we don't, what's going to stop us from ruining the next host?

What is Time?

In the magnificent
Spiral
Whorl
Of this Milky Way galaxy
A few seconds of time
Might be
1000 lifetimes

Flipfone Attic

My favorite is the one when I'm stretched out between spiderwebby joists in an attic that's 134 degrees, checking on some problem wiring, the cellphone rings: "sir, you've won a 3-day vacation in Martinique, press one for the exciting details!

A Good Broom is Hard to Find

I'd like to locate
This colony of Tenzo women
Rumored to be somewhere
In the hills above Camptonville
Whose specialty
Is stitching fine cornstraw brooms,
Who understand
The invitation to meditation
Sweeping offers

Don't Try This

Printed on the large cardboard box 
The new oven/range was packed in
Is a large graphic 
A human figure carrying it on his head
With a big X through it