Time-out

Offspring pouts offstage

Loudly silent musing on

Mominequity.

Midsummer

Green vines twine the sun

Cold silk waves wrap against toes

Lively birds sing out

Coping

Read extra stories

Sing extra songs, pray extra

And wait extra waits.

Fission

Molecules vibrate;

Electricity surges

To fevered pitch.

Aging

Erosion eats at

Shoreline dunes, washes sand down

And tears away grass.

Temper

Lava bubble builds

Roils, writhes, spins burning orange

Ropes around mind's eye.

Cocoon

Carnelian red

Against white cup of my hand

Never to grow wings.

Writer's Block

Jammed together

Like logs in the narrow pass

Of the brain's river.

Blossom Carnival

Cherry-tree balloons

Tethered to grass-green ground by

Gnarled ancient trunks

Starless Night

Wool of a black sheep

Wrap diamonds for safekeeping

Ready for fresh dark.

On Dealing With My Parents

Dear Head, meet Brick Wall.

Discuss, concuss, cuss, cuss, bleed.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Grey Day

Bore boring bored

Conjugate lost possibles

Blossoms without bees.

Windy Day

Wind clatters across

Banging looseness east to west

Rattling discontent.

Dada Haiku

Out of reach just there

Dangling tantalizing fruit

Hupsaba James Joyce

First Breath

Words like mosquitos

Brush the inside of my mind

Like a trapped breath.