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

newtown

coming to know
     the varied land
          like the nose of a puma

Storm Walk

Near midnight
  stormwinds arrive

Roaring in close pines
      by the house

I couldn't resist
Flashlight in hand 
       go out walking-

Near the empty highway
  in the inky blackness
    the swirling snowclouds part-

Orion & Pleiades!