Poetry 9/22/18

Night train Only three of us On the last train out Me sitting between A fly and a bee Wary Of both. I’m fighting To stay wide wide Awake Fearing filth Or sting, You know how They are. Watching me I know They are Watching me. The smarter fly Is wiping its Eyes obsessively The […]

Poetry 9/21/18

Appreciation  I appreciate the river always showing the shy flowing bottom grass who is the boss, who is the flow. I appreciate the way it punches out cinder blocks drowned and revealed when the river pants during a drought. I appreciate the river when it washes over the mind taking it in not a friend […]

Poetry 9/20/18

  All tanka   all the leaves decided not to turn really annoying the pines who were winter’s green doyens     wickedness I keep rubbing the tv screen with bleach still there-wickedness     he tweets all night! amazing how nimble his fingers if only they had little brains     strangers mumble I […]

Poetry 9/18/18

Tanka 9/18 #1 reading ancient Chinese poets before I sleep mountains are easier to climb in dreams   #2 after midnight be patient I am the snail a slow, elegant lover