Italy - The Marble Panini

Watercolor & Applique

Walking

When we were younger, a New York morning

Was laced with last night's memories

Like new shoes with remembered twine.

Now our older mornings are stitched anew

With new laces and yesterday's shoes.

Dream of You (for Nikki)

The image of Persia . . .

Like a dark stream of hair it curls

Undoes itself, then curls again

Ribboning over and around

Pillows and polished memories

Dream’s empire unfurls

Colors purple and gold snapping

In the liquid breeze,

A woven stream bridging

The straits of logic in my sleep

And then you descend

Upon my Greece your soft lips

Parted your eyes opening mine

Ryan’s Song . . . Gone So Wrong, Now the Rest to Follow

In this tired story fueled, it seems,

by personal and institutional greed,
will suspension clear the smoke?

HGH and PEDs, the fiery secret
formula lurking hidden in MLB . . . then
one astute comment is its equation:

“Average talent becomes good,
good talent becomes great, and
great talent reaches the Hall of Fame.”

(In the past the tightrope dance between
denial and admission seemed to mirror baseball -
where business often outweighed the game.)

But not this time: the list of the alleged is
too long, the evidence too compelling.  MLB
will clean house, Selig will have his legacy.

To note: Braun may get his money, so may
others to be named.  But Hall of Fame status
is unreachable . . . and no asterisk need apply.

Passing Thought

Hunched, gravitated to a smartphone screen
Like Narcissus staring, text’s the thing.
It’s where liquid moments self-flatter
By message and reply. The airy matter

Is self-absorption and drags a warning:
Walk the walk . . . and chew gum talking,
But don’t get off an escalator and expect
Phone-in-hand the world to genuflect.

Hamlet In The Morning

Walking to work tired, feet sticky
With the aftermath of dreams.
They made sense earlier this morning
And still cling to my shoes.

Is this the way, always?
To wake.  To sip coffee and memory,
And then walk between
The linger and abrupt necessity?

"Totem II" - Watercolor/Applique' on Japanese Paper

Late Afternoon on the Airport Shuttle, Dallas/Ft. Worth - Olypus Stylus