County Road #85

beat up by pickups
   Jackass Road
      wears rain-puddle shiners

just wondering

We've so filled the world
   with time- and labor-saving devices
Why then have we so little time
   and work so hard?

&

let's have a hand!
for the asterisk*
& ampersand!

after Ling Zi Ping

Is this not
The same wide moment
The mastodon roamed-
Where then is the demarcation?

drizzle

...'drizzle' pretty much gets accorded 3d class status in meteorological circles, rain but not really, unrain but not really, yet this morning when I walked up to the street to fetch my Bee I was greeted by a subtle and sublime atmosphere that sent a cold fresh spritz across my cheek, misting the town lights before me, and I felt nothing so much as christened by this new day, lifted happily out of my sleepyheadedness into an indistinct euphoria- call it 'drizzle' if you'd care to, but what I call it is unexpected grace.

kitkit'ku

On the dusty sill
   of Gary's outhouse-
Livy's History of Rome

bi-cycle

If technology was devised
To sweeten our conversation
With the earth & sky
A bicycle would certainly
Be a gem of engineering