Tuesday, April 15, 2025

time enough

restless edgy
achy from the wait 
time to unfurl
sprout
feel the sun
shine


Friday, April 11, 2025

politics

just go
in the opposite direction
everything will be perfect

backwards
down
end

og tsuj
noitcerid etisoppo eht ni
tcefrep eb lliw gnihtyreve


Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Monday, April 7, 2025

Sunday, April 6, 2025

April 6

interstice

analog clock hand

movement sounding

before moving


pianissimo

rain drop 

between molecules of air falling

without landing

April 5: Prompts

the danger
of depending on others' words
is losing your own

the danger
of depending on others' words
is seeing beyond yourself

Saturday, April 5, 2025

April 4: Still Life

each piece of the still life
is rendered to perfection
yet each seems slightly        suspended
above the                                   reality of the table
as though the arranging is     not         yet       complete
as though each piece
needs to find         a place of comfort
in a discomforting space . . .


Thursday, April 3, 2025

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Standing on a muddy road . . .

at the field’s edge:


a thin tree


2 slim wires


electric, prone to brown outs


telephone, party line:


1 for him


1 for us


1 ring for him


2 rings for us


or the

other way

around?


6-4610


1958


no


calls


now



Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Hummingbird - Musically Speaking


I am waiting for you.
Where do you wait?
In Florida with retirees?
South along the Gulf of Mexico?
All the way home
to sunny Mexico?
Is anyone left there to call you huitzitzilin?

I am waiting for you.
Will you come?
To New England spring?
North to our garden?
I will grow you fresh flowers.
I will surprise you
with a new name.

I am waiting for you.
Will you come?
I will call you ariette.
Because you are a lively character.
You dart at each other endlessly:
a comic dialogue
among the flowers.

time enough

restless edgy achy from the wait  time to unfurl sprout feel the sun shine