Friday night, whilst sleep-deprived and perhaps a bit tipsy went to cook from scratch and awoke in the wee hours Saturday, in my shimmy under a wide open window on the floor of my office cold, and a little stiff then wandered down to the kitchen to fin...
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Over 90 days ago
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randomly happy to see your fish are safe
stream of conciousness ode to fishyou said you'd cleaned out your tank I'm randomly happy to see your fish are safe now that I know there were no WC funerals at your house and you two didn't dine on leonid clownfish starters I always thought I'd like to have a tropical saltwater tank ...
Making Perfect Sense
with thanks to PanI see beauty everywhere in old faces grown gentle or embittered with storied lines around the mouth deepset eyes look out on the bones of the earth basalt dozing titans apt to awaken momentarily to quake leaves from tresses tangled in turning over I hear...
Stewards of Gardening
poised on the brink of changethe soil is turned under and over the cycling suns to moons fed with loving refuse composted experience the careful rows weeded of unnecessary baggage weathered accomplices encouraging, well-timed grants of moisture and the precise moment of commitment se...
Inertia
after a long dry spell surrounded by undrinkable water, sometimes rhyming words that aren't theredead calm adrift a vast pacific mirror waiting salt-poisoned dreams fevered fish flying a school cracks the glass overarching my too well-made craft still afloat enduring land in sight white prismatic floating mountains cool promise sending shards of li...
Postcard from 'Nam
LZ before it gets hot, cooler in peaceful memories, but still smokin'. (G-d, they're so young.)(for Jeff & Bobby, and all the rest) He and I got into it a shouting match a big one snatches of overheard conversations “. . . he had Jane Fonda arrested,” and “. . . near Pleiku . . . ” and that lousy packet coffee “. . . either a major assault, or a ma...
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(Wine and Roses) Pan comes piping cloven hooves high-steppin' it white flutter-by maidens ring in on the changes enchanted in the glade of interleaved filtering a sun-dappled glen where she sits composing a secret audience the river laughing nearby harmon...
Annoyed. Not at any one: generally irritable. I tell myself that acquisition of patience, the suspension between desire and attainment, is in itself the goal. Like Tantric Yoga. My cursor wings away. I hover the mouse, awaiting the hand's return, ever re...
Perfectly Accidental Gems at the International Machine Tool Show
hints of life among skyscraper canyons (title near outweighs subject: ephemera)Tiny beads of lucent moistureseined from this Chicago fog,strung carelessly on gossamer:artless, stranded silken spars.Weather, mood and spider labour,in urban stillness, collaborate:diamonds in the gutter - Ahh!dawn's ephemera, seen here now.- kmf (RedSo...
Come near, my love
to a collaborative friend on another continentMeet me for an outing, a picnic I humbly offer my cooking beats my spelling hands down, we can peel each other grapes, while you toss the word-salad I’ll dress it with our discarded opera gloves and boot ribbons saucing your stochastic greens then may sin...