Idea

through the opaque a tiny glint of thought emerges into focus to dance in the mind’s eye and crystallize into the clarity of idea
Triad

Triad

triad   ripe fruit poems appear in my mindlike ripe fruit on a treenear, but out of reach ah, to muster the gumptionto climb the fenceand traipse through thicketto pick them   wet words sometimes my mind is a desert landscapeand  thoughts are like bleached bones in...

The Coyote

a ghostly figure moving through the dark      the coyote emerges from the chaparral. down the trail he sneaks on feather feet   then shoots across the roadway like an arrow.an intruder, an interloperinvading the peopled flatlands below,  seeking opportunity in the...
My Mark

My Mark

to make my mark… to be seen and heard was my purpose, my desire   to blaze like a meteor across the sky so young, so full of fire   but with the years I’ve shed this edgy need to prove that I exist watching, listening, I now hear and see the myriad...

Lament for a Garden Hose

a green garden hoselies sprawled on the lawnwhere it was so casuallytossed weeks ago dropped,abandoned at the siren callof a cell phone it now turns stiff and brittle in the sunits once wetand muscular vitality but a distant memoryhaphazard loops frozen in time -a...