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Lizards

I watch Lizards Trolling along The cliff Hanging angle of fence Head to tail In their procession Stopping to forage in the ants The cling to the vines In a draping oasis Head to tail This caravan Of sunken elephant Bobbing Their Grey, brown bodies to the sun I watch And I am transported toContinue reading “Lizards”

softly

I call to my cat in the simplest of ways with silence

pond-air-ring

The rains fall upon the pool of green Bubbles ripple And all I can think of are frog burps 1-4-2013

Flash Flood Warning

it is one of those rains that makes your hair stand on end, and the cats start talking of how their lives were nearly spent for they were outside when the boom of day made them wet My heart has had those moments too when something was about to explode the impending of words toContinue reading “Flash Flood Warning”

pixel show

Reading shadows In the leaves Befallen images Upon my fence Laughing as I see My old dog smiling At me Then the breeze shifts The images move Their dappled pixels Swaying Is he running Away No It’s my grandmother Wearing a flouncy Chiffon petal hat Those commonly adorned By ladies In the sixties When womenContinue reading “pixel show”

what are you doing?

what are you doing now? I said with a smile turned upside down the cavern carved into my brow seemed out of place for my emotion did not match my face I was talking to the mirror beginning to ponder how did this all occur I did wonder what haven’t you done? is my life’sContinue reading “what are you doing?”

laundry

getting the laundry done is such an ordeal that I laugh when a piece of lint floats away in the silence of a mosquito past the corner of my eye I laugh when my torso goes to and from, up and down thinking that my wiggle is creating a jiggle in the hips and belowContinue reading “laundry”

I went by Jasper

I drove past Jasper today soft speckled fluff mounded on the white line between the rows of cars If I had not seen the wing before I would not be able to discern if Jasper had been anything other than Bird its soft allure beckons me to stop and pick it up and cradle itContinue reading “I went by Jasper”

Jasper

I lost a friend today as I made my way down the highway a fragile wing a spinneret of mahogany and speckled cream with the hue of a mushroom on the bark of a tree fluttered in the wind from slowly passing cars little, small tufts of soft ear hairs waiting to be heard byContinue reading “Jasper”