Thoughtles
Turkey wattles
Verbal battles
Empty bottles
Tipsy toddles
Loving models
Partner coddles
Doggeral jottles
Flatware rattles
Tablecloth mottles
Sibling spattles
Everyone tattles
November 25, 2011
Valparaiso, IN
This Started Out as Frowning Fun but now –
The spoils of oil: formerly loyal coin but now hard toil and the boil of roiling soiled waters.
Trompe d’oil along marshes, foiling coiling DNA, spoiling sport and trolling vessels and strolling in voile and coyly lolling.
Doilies of oil on silicon sands, anointing points and coves and protesting doves and
Gargoyled pelicans cloistered not on clean Aeolian isles, but ours. Shoaled.
Turmoil of cloying clotting death, broiling in hot sunny joyless spume.
June 12 – 14, 2010
Valparaiso, Indiana
First Revision
Who mourns the passing of winter?
Icicles weep.
Snow melts in tears.
Ice floes drown.
Snow banks fail
While the icy blast breathes its last.
Who mourns the passing of the season?
Winter only. Only winter.
No one else has reason –
Unless he’s got skis on!
March 24, 2010
Valparaiso, IN
Blaster blasted
Who mourns the passing of winter?
Icicles weep.
Snow melts in grief.
Ice floes drown themselves in warm water.
Frozen ledges break from river slopes,
downstream hurtling
suicidally crashing over spring falls.
The icy blast breathes its last.
Who mourns the passing of the season?
Winter only. Only winter.
No one else has reason.
March 20, 2010
Valparaiso, IN
Christmas 1999/2003
I am standing
on the corner
selling
newspapers
telling
ourselves how
we are all
lying twisting
in the political
winds
I am
dying
for a kind word
but all I get from you is
your small change
The green fish
on your white
bumper stickers
swim into the
distance
Save me
Save me
January 2004
Corvallis, OR
May First
The cruel, foolish fist
Of April
Opens.
What’s inside?
??!?
Laugh foolishly,
Look around
See.
May 1, 2009
Valparaiso, IN
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