into the water, splash!
with a squeal and loud laughter,
she douses her dad
Looking backward, he contemplates:
Do we mostly orchestrate our own tortures, invite them to our door, fling it wide open and beg them to come inside for a spell?
Thinking about it, he isn’t so certain that the troubles he lived through weren’t of his own [...]
for me,
poetry beats the heart —
each moment,
an awakening
waiting to thrum
the petals of the
plum tree in the front yard burst –
perfume through the door
in the grass sits a rabbit, chewing
ignoring the baited live trap
i set last weekend
I’d make a terrible blind person.
Today, I had my first eye exam in more years than I can recall, forced [...]
ants swarm at the base
of the house foundation block —
i slay, no remorse…
carefully she picks
at the dinner before her —
chicken, not the peas
the bird egg lays crushed
in grass just after mowing —
a child calls afar
spring interrupted —
blanket of late April snow
green grass pushing through
all still slumbering
save the coffee-pot, the sun,
ducks in snow and me
green grow rushes still —
a lonely train moans in the
night, not far away