Several 2010
DUET
I wanted to do a somersault
at the height of senectitude
But my eye glasses cracked
and three bones couldn’t perform
So I took up acting
My dog crossed the stage
at the climax and barked
The audience was confused
as I stood in the wings
and she cocked her head
under the lights gazed at me
awaiting my words and my voice,
which were her music
Feb.22, 2010
STATIONS
The bones are growing
but brain is folding up
You’re on a trip
a vacation
not a care in your head
Drink your milk, they say
you obey with exquisite fromage
to live a century and a half
more than your bible has promised
Now what?
You dont ask
the stations of your cross
are new
and special
They pleasure you
at each
Even the whips are a good
in this life of queens
and kings
the earth neatly divided
a blind fold when your new vehicle
passes beggars on the road
and a few lepers
as you head for the next stop
and give yourself to your masters
4/27/2010
WINDOW
The squirrels were scurrying
Three of them frolicking
or mating
in the trees
fronded boughs obscuring
what was happening
But there were flashes
of movement
feelings of happiness
a pigeon passing overhead
and a pencil that followed
jotting it down
May 2010
LATE
I was a bit remiss
Forgive me
There was a car race, a ball game, a
broken connection to the internet
and the latest technological wonder
come to town
Nothing personal, no slight in this
I swear it
Simply that my recall failed
so that I remembered a day late
which was too late
And now I can’t tell you!
So I display my burdened time
to readers who are confirm
in others’ words
regretting that you’ve departed for good
as I stop a moment and realize
what seemed to be a mental entity
was your flesh and your blood
May, 2010