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...

The Echo

Chaucer,  Keats,  and Willie Dixon Echo in this crazy brain                                      Emily, Robert, Walt, and Hank                   O lustrous star, O lonesome train Frederick, Miles, Brian, and John          Good vibrations...

Impulse

up on the fence I toe the narrow path one foot in front of the other. oh, I must keep moving, eyes straight ahead, for to stop and think is to fall. on the edge of balance I sway from wobble to repose when suddenly a cool breeze hits my face and a spontaneous urge...
Cry, Dark Cloud

Cry, Dark Cloud

cry, dark cloud let your tears rain down upon me weep, dark sky unfold your shroud to cover my sorrow sigh, deep, rhythmic sea exhale your misty breath against my being to wash my soul and comfort me