Late night TV

Late night TV,

a mad scientist talking

to a brain in a jar.

A pigeon crossing

A pigeon crossing

street-car tracks, bobbing forward,

bobbing back.

Goin’ Croatoan

I’m disappearing

day by day,

goin’ Croatoan…

Memories of Paradise and Monday Morning

Memories

of Paradise,

gently fanning wings… 

*** 

Monday morning,

I awake in The Chapel

Perilous…

Up and down the stairs

Up and down the stairs,

the laundry and me

done.

The clock face

The clock face

faintly luminous,

I close my eyes.

Awake in the dark

Awake in the dark…

Where did insomnia

learn my name?

Dislodged

Dislodged

while flossing my teeth,

a side of beef.

3 crows fly by

3 crows fly by,

taking with them

my tiny mind…

Distant Party

Distant party,

Mariachi band playing -

not distant enough.

Have you seen me?

The young woman’s face

smiles from a telephone pole:

Have you seen me?

Almost noon

Almost noon,
the shirt I’m wearing
the shirt I slept in.

Laundry done

Laundry done,

I ascend the stairs

to a smile I love.

On Writing

Almost a poem,

the ant in the palm

of my hand.

Stormcloud Poets, second anthology

 

Stormcloud Poets, second anthology, new from Thunderune Publishing, includes three poems by me. Get your copy at the links below.

 

Stormcloud Poets

 

 

Stormcloud Poets

Darkness on the stair

Darkness on the stair...
Only shadows
stirring there?

Rising with

Rising with

the afternoon sun,

cicada hum…

Distant radio

Distant radio

informs me:

“She’s a brick house!”

Haiga at tiny words

Haiga by yours truly published June 12, 2014 at tiny words,  Issue 14.1:

 

http://tinywords.com/2014/06/12/16852/

Blue jay

Blue jay

on a satellite dish

with something to say...