“Great nations aren’t made of friendly
flowers,” tweets a vainglorious beast. His
words deal in luxuriant greed and smell like
bacon to believers.”
Following Senior Swim
Four decades on, I disrobe to swim,
a lumbering seal to the reed I was, and I look
away—no longer in horror.
Time Like Bread
I will make time.
I will form it with
my hands like
bread.
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Be Sure To Show Your Work
A bus takes two days
to reach your destination.
Better bring pizza.
Minus Tide
Uneven runnels between larger outcrops
deepen, getting out to the surf-spray edge,
where waves confront black rocks in loud wallops.
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Where are the songs?
That was then and this is now,
with a world still living with too much the same.
Times moving faster, disparities widening, racism raising,
reeling, searching for an anthem, trying to find the right song…
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Drift Boats on the Klickitat
This is a hastening tributary —
it’s not the wider river
with headwaters gathered in the Rockies
which divulges its volume beyond Astoria.
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The Owls of Oslo
The Owls of Oslo
I cannot see
I hear them over the din of cars
and bells
and the drunken cacophony
of Saturday evening
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Offspring
The Deer raise their brown heads
to make contact by eyes
and seem to acknowledge,
I’m the harmless neighbor.
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Everlast
Medicine smoke circles
Over me
Rising
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