Encounter

That silly clucking squirrel
Was going to let me have it,
Something nice & ripe,
I followed him
Through the bouncing high-way
Of cedar branches,
Cheeks bulging with something unspeakable,
Yesterday he rained down shuckings
Where I worked at sawhorses
And I cussed him & his pedigree,
Today he's going to say
"Take this hombre!"
And disappear into the wind-stirred canopies,
Laughing all the way.

Elder haiku

both blamed each other
for not bringing
the vaseline

picasso quote

"...computers are worthless- they only give us answers."

Deck Repair at Sixty

Alone in the digger outback
At the end of Piper Hill Road
Crossed by vulture shadows
Mid-July
I balance precariously the 2 x 8 x 14 skirt board
On my knee
Twenty feet up the bent extension ladder
In my mouth a passel of sixteen-penny nails
Praying!   Nothing!    Shifts!

Bodysurfing

Fine white ocean sand
     between my toes
Awaiting the Glory Wave
     that never shows

-Zacatito       -for Dan Sweigert

woody allen quotes

"...as it is writtten, the lion and the calf shall lie down together... but the calf won't be getting much sleep."

"...I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality by NOT DYING."

windy-ku

high winds today-
    the tall pines
        give up their kites