Unpredictable movement makes
the best form of combat.
Sashay meanings about
the page like startled squirrels.
Use crunchy words. Feed’em
Pixie Stix cause its funny.
Draw scenes— play 3 card
Monty with images over meaning.
Lit tricks are OK, but remember
sledgehammers make good points.
Set it free. Everyone reads differently
and finds their own meanings.
Today the turkey hen returned.
I watched her eating in the tall fescue,
bugs, but mostly worms, I think.
Rain has them of all sizes crawling.
I watch her for over an hour, maybe two,
All I can think
of is: I am happy she is stalling
today,
but suddenly I make myself
unhappy, quite…
It hit me the way
a two A. M. call does: the self-
same message without the night
to shroud the news.
The turkey did not hatch her nest.
I so expected when next I saw her,
her hatchling would follow her,
learning from her pecking teaachings.
Half a year in Alaska
Was it the bomb
I’ve gotta ask ya
Hat tipped back
With the ascot
Mask off
Write another check
Mark that task off
Put it all on black
Let it stack
and we blast off
i blink slowly
letting the tears soak
into my eyelashes
holding myself
the way you used to hold me
or at least my best attempt
at recreating it
it seems so unfair
leaving everything behind again
after attempting to love it all
so well
triple grief
doubling over
folding into a tightly packed
rectangle of regret
i wish i would have done
every bad thing differently
i wish i could sleep
thinking
it will all be okay in the morning
i grip the sheets tighter
i let out my breath
turn my head to my pillow
swallow salt water
tears drip down my chin and chest
adjective | (of a person, organization, or institution)
required or expected to justify actions or decisions.
Careless flick of arm
to spill coffee and spend hours
cleaning the mistake.
Careless flick of pen
to write horrors into law,
no time spent mourning.
Feel worse for the spill
of drink on carpet than they
do for carpet bombs.
