Marooned Pirate

Aye . . . a bad term already

something in-the-pocket
something me-related
now I has no need for it
baronet of an empty beach

perhaps something dark green
even a swamp would be the thing
more human & not
a sand trace where I doesn't matter

. . . but resourcefulness does begin

Generations

Generations generations
Ideas ideas from the sea

A need to understand the surf
Its lacy foam thrown out

A bed sheet laid down on sand
Then pulled back again

Family Trek, New York

Is time travel possible? Yes
The square root of life? Yes

It takes a calculator – the heart

The sunlight on Walker Drive
The house at the end on the right
A cul de sac a stronghold
Of heart dreams & such punched in

Day-to-day a sliding screen
To the deck to the grill
& later Sunday a morning paper unrolled
with coffee rolls & jam

And passing into afternoon quietly
Combing the green kissing the sky
While overhead raptors may gyre
Here a family on Walker Drive

The calculator the home

Is time travel possible? Yes
The square root of life? Yes

From The Hudson River, Looking Back To Manhattan - August 2009

40th Anniversary - The Astronauts

Leaning into a long tube & then out again
An imperturbable no-panic visage
Sunlight reflected on a gold-coated visor

The uncalculated responses heroes would say
Seeing an airless Moon covered in pumice
Seeing an Earth so fragile so naked

And then to come home

Kite/Figure In The Sky (Central Park, New York City)

Younger than green bamboo
I was taught at Sheep Meadow
How to fly

Shape spine
Taper & bend bow
Describe edges point-to-point
With good Indian thread
And assemble

Lay this all down on paper
Crease fold & glue
Test for balance test for tension
Rightness & good looks
Then attach a string

Younger then green bamboo
I was taut on a string
Taught at Sheep Meadow

Night Sky, New York City - July 2009