The Little Words Mean the Most

Bright thots under a racing grim gray-haired sky

 

Every person

I've invited

to my council fire

claim & sent

daily

 

that's what insanity is: daily

I know

YOU CAN'T BE PERFECT

i know

YOU CAN'T EVEN BE WELL

you can only

STUMBLE

 

Welcome

to your very own pilgrimage toward

redemption yes you can

flowers on the street as you arrive

 

but you know

it's not for the weak and unlucky

 

 

 

I FOUND A TRUMP IN MY TOILET

DO I FLUSH?

TRUMP IS A CHUMP

CHUMP IS A DUMP

DUMP IS A DUCK

DUCK IS A LUCK

TRUCK IS A TRUMP

so there

Memorial Service

 

them is us

 

Our slagheap waistlines they hide a

lifetime each of bad and noble decisions

From a lost book of story ideas

 

 

The Widow Cruiser

 

been two months for her. Age 69

He pulled up. Got out slowly. Rang her bell. Came tea. Settled inside.

"Gail, you smoking enough weed?"

 

 

 

You put aside your dark side

 

as a kind of night light

over there

over there on a close shelf

a small shelf, easily flammable

you put aside your birth religion on

another small shelf and find a

new forest of adjectives to lumber

 

 

I just discovered

"My top 10 G-rated poems in this blog number about 32

The Hotel Modern, New Orleans

 

that strange bed eye to eye with Robert E. Lee

was my beach on an island

sheets and pillows white

sands replaced each day

 

tonight bad late way past eight

outside my open winter window

suddenly (a word overused in storytelling until now)

I hear a coyote hunting frenzy pack

concluding its kill!!!

Take it down take it down

shrill before feasting

like my stomach says eat it eat it

thin, confident, loud, fed

eating is a bodily function we perform in public

 

 

The owl

 

wh .. wh .. wha .. hoo!!!

telegraphs into quiet night, no wind detected

across a million leaves

fast came the response though

from a nearby tree her soprano his bass

wha ... hooo!!!

 

"And that, my dear children,

is how baby owls come into being."

closing her book for good

again that night

 

most dreaded sweetest sound in the exploding world

for young ears

growing like corn

 

He didn't have much a a drawl, more a

a widdrawl