snow'ku

a kid again
catching snowflakes
on my tongue

-january 2011

Getting Even

for Susan-

After I punched it
  To beat the yellow light
    On Richardson Street
      She flipped-

This became the shape of her retaliation:

"After we've crashed and you're dead and gone
I'll bury you in a Veteran's Cemetery
With full military honors!"

Moonrock'd

In the Astronomy Mock
   a scuffle broke out

I got clock'd by a moonrock
   for my lunatic shout

Reno VA

An ex-Marine
in the travel re-imbursement line
at the Reno VA today

citing Hai Phong where the defoliant
Agent Orange
was "deployed" from twin-blade Chinooks

across the jungle indiscriminate
to flush the Viet-Cong

Nineteen Seventy-One

"Everyone qualifies for disability
If you can prove you were there"

Why so few question
such blank-check militarism
where the formidable M-I-C tail
wags so many national
dogs

Paulo

Showing off her husband
She had him play 'Moonlight Sonata'
On his new baby grand
And the minor flubberies
Only embellished it

choices

This wide world offers
An abundant portfolio of grief
-Purchase all you'd like-

But it likewise presents
Rosy dawnlight
In the upper canopies

Spin

Something in the poet
Inclines sharply toward The Tale,
Toward a colorful recounting,
That wants to spin
A Walk Down The Alley
Into some kind of art piece

beer money

I fell on hard times
It could happen to you--

Now my body belongs to Tasman Research
After I've turned blue

rain

Those who hold Nature
Close to their breast
Recognise what wind rain &snow
Represent:
A christening:
Not only of the dusty preterite
But also one's rote sensibilities:
When the glorious sun
Breaks through the storm's last clouds
Thrall to a new sky
And the pine grove
Resplendent in a light
Not before seen

Skyline Boulevard

Tell me again
how the sapien sapien
whizzing by in his Honda bot
is smarter
than the red-tailed squirrel dancing
in the sunlit redwoods
two hundred feet above?

-Skylonda

my forty-year old axe

has already had
three different handles
and two different heads