Yelping

it’s been a downer this week sickness in our house the baby feverish tonight our lights all at half mast a friend who recently lost her long term love tells her grief today after months of hiding behind haikus and i fine myself unsteady ground floor i’m on zigs and zags as if foundation were [...]

Jackpot

i hit my jackpot..167 points my all-time high on Words With Friends screaming  in the background our resident hawk soars over her eucalyptus nest home we’re all here on this suburban Los Angeles California Saturday afternoon our empty bank account testifying to a week of passion in Italy should i care about the numbers when [...]

Old Hen

i’m scratching again my chicks all gone i’m searching  for feed for fodder for some way to rate to grant my community something of value to live by pecking away with no order   my livin’ ain’t easy never has been really no pappy standin by but i’m diggin’ deep this time no time now [...]

Please Don’t Leaf Me

you must have fallen felt yourself separated from the limb that had always been your mother floating on the wind that tore you from her…set adrift you were caught by the thread of an almost invisible web were you twirled a dance connected to the lamp post outside my window not any human-made art could [...]

Minuet

this thing in me that breaks open every few minutes this minuet of despair… there is laughing somewhere in here but it is derisive caring nothing for my pain i say to the cynic, Can’t you see i’m bleeding here i live in a world gone to hell sirens and helicopter blades make the music [...]

365–To Hear the Angels Sing

here it is the last song of this particular choir i pass the places that were strange when i started to run before my shoes wore out and the dust settled i am here now not there, this place belongs to all of us and none i guess possession has to do with demons not [...]

364–Lips

sacred promise almost fulfilled i come to the end of this book hold my companion in deep respect wonder at the ride of roller coaster words that life is complete a journey of poetry quest and trust that there is singing waiting to be heard the heavens are made of this symphony of sound instruments [...]

363–god word

and now for the last three poems i trust you words because you sound so much like who we are so much goddess flows out the windows of these words become worlds adding one small l  the word became flesh and dwelt among us jesus walking on the water of words fleeing on words down [...]

362–Listen!!

learning to listen i’m a thinker thinks run amuck in my brain swirl into the atmosphere contaminate what i see and feel only the quiet cures me takes away the poison of thought spreads illumination where before there was only dead skin

361–Homesick

Johnson and Johnson what does that mean? a father and son the elder named John once thought to be business men the world swooped them up me and you believing our babies eyes and skin in good hands the beautiful baby pictures now they poison the medicine we give our most precious parts to relieve [...]