"Pond" - September 2011 - Watercolor on Japanese Paper

Liveliness In Words

Liveliness in words
Is not a god's fraction

Word's learned by time
Are pleasant company

Argue the implausible
And make it fiction

Continue the argument
And make it fact

Baseball . . . Soon

Sure 'nuff baseball starts
fan world balanced on
a new season
by game beer brats

But the season-to-be
first pumped by fist
applause dismays
maybe applause again is

The moments the pitches
the at-bats & skewed recoveries
the brilliant plays or errors by inches
or a bunt called fair

Anticipate whatever
moments of small history
a baseball song
a long time April-October

Time & Rain

Time & rain wait for no one

(nor does this pun
or life-long love spun
on white dove wings
lifted to open sky)

but to remind
sometimes heart hand
& moment are destined

Christmas 2010

I was not aware of Christmas
Or of its bells & dreams
But an attack of snow just now

Wakened me
I labor intensive against drifts
Against waves of white

With a whale of a story
Shoaling cars trees homes
But do not call me Ahab

Call me Claus . . . Santa Claus
Shaken like a snow globe
Stirred like a frothy punch

I hunt happiness
Through snowballs ice & snowflakes
A steaming pod of dreams pluming

North South East West
Thar she blows!
I am Kringle . . . Kris Kringle

Leaf History

I no longer care who I am
Nor express my veins

Or what I was
I no longer aspirate

Quick wind will make a change
I hang about & wait

Fall

I have no view
The rain the wind the silver sightings

Express dreams express showers
Strong winds to come to obscure

A leaf the edges of me
Toss bending with every gust