Friday, March 3, 2023
Poem written at the Kanas Center
Saturday, February 18, 2023
The Best and the Worst
I put a bag of dog poop
In the pocket of my fleece
Along with another bag
Of doggie treats
And when I got
To the garbage can in town
I threw away the wrong bag
And continued home
With a pocket full of poop
The best and the worst
Become interchangeable, it seems
That’s sometimes how life works
Sunday, April 24, 2022
A Mind for Mulch
What I tried but failed
To explain to my wife
Is that of the various things
I have come to truly believe
Over the last decade of life
Composting turns out
To play a key part in
What goes round the bend
To the next part
Vital like sex
The same mixing
Of like like and unlike
Whatever turns up next in
The three card monte
Of the afterlife
Saturday, April 23, 2022
The Second Phase of Spring
The confetti begins
The second phase of spring
When the tulips have burst
On the scene
The cherry is almost ready
While the magnolia petals
Have surrendered in number
Supine on the lawn
It’s all new and almost over
At the same time and
Li Shang Yin shudders
With delight
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
It's a Very Weimar World
Monday, April 11, 2022
For the Star Magnolia on the Front Lawn
Sunday, February 27, 2022
The Germination Song
Had begun to open
I heard the first plink
Of the germination song
You know spring first
By the sounds rising
In the back yard
The dogs barking
Amidst the rising chorus
Of birdsong
It won’t be long now
And I swear I can
Hear the gears turning
Deep in the soil
As the year begins
To sing along
Out of sight the gears
Of the new year have begun
To turn in the soil
Things coming along
The germination song
It won’t be long now
#haiku #germination