Shimmering Pebbles in the Light Stream

 

walking the night

 

saplings blacken along

the sidewalk against the misted night,

 

a refracted light sky over

wrought iron candelabras on stands

lamping

in the coasted evening

 

1st pub. in Writer’s Ink

 

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surreal morning

 

bulky morro rock f l o a t s

heavy on the narrow gray

ocean fog strata, sedimentary air

 

while the ocean's soapy crashing

churns combustible froth

and advances up our shore

 

above, the sun, orange;

 

in the fog below

the heavy floating ghost ship

 

 

1st pub. in Erbacce,

United Kingdom

 

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bidingTimeabiding

 

bite my teeth on famous lines

a hole lot of fragmented shells;

hunger hollows within--

deepening abyss

of lost longing

lone-ranging, reigning the distance

of a round heartless night

 

of a round heart-last light

lane-ranging, raining the day-stance

of last longing

steepening a-bless

wonder hallows within--

a whole lot of fragranced ‘shalls’;

bide my heart on famous lines

 

 

First pub. in Dead Snakes

 

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Lapping Ideas

 

Backstroking across the ceiling

white gulls of light arching

wing refraction

 

from high intensity bulbs above

that shekel-flash on blue body waves of the pool

bright incandescent--transcendent--lights

 

swimming in this liquid marble

strikes of 'lightening' broken

and broken on the waves

like archetypes that shimmer in this cavern...

 

 

1st pub. in The Centrifugal Eye,

Canada,

also in Front Porch Review

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Human Imitation

 

North of Duluth

I muse, mentally drooling

Over lake-shrouded woods,

 

Jotting scribble notes and

Fumbling with my camera lens,

 

Then I spot the enormous moose.

 

 

-1st pub. in Bigger Stones

 

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Cambria in Gray

 

Down the fogged

June of ocean

Road gloom,

Through

Smog of a coastal fire,

Sparked mistake;

 

Black and white flakes

Confetti ash down,

Cover our hood and roof

Gray ‘mourning’--

Dust to dust,

Ash to ash

 

 

1st pub. in

The Houston Literary

Review

 

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A purple jacaranda

van-goghed our clay yard

violet-peppering into paint,

splashing

'landescape'

 

 

--

 

Rock Life

 

White-capped wind roars around

Huge volcanic buttes swimming north

Off the Oregon Coast

 

Like asymmetrical gray whales

Leaving splashing trails of white water

Behind in the slate green ocean

 

Yes, clashing waves churning around

The behemoths, frothing

 

 

1st pub. In The Houston

Literary Review

 

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our ranch bed

 

icebergs in puddles

by her wet cowboy boots--

our global warming

 

--

 

 

shadowed garden

 

in the long backlawn,

ansel-adam shadows

 

grow in the late afternoon

extending across dark grass,

shading the steel dog dish.

 

the hula hoop, and wagon--

a one-dimensional garden

slowly tended

by the leaving sun

only to be hoed under by the dusk

 

 

1st pub. in

The Green Silk Journal

 

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southern utah

 

finger-painted

eye-widening rock,

brilliant sheened sharp

pastels bold in this sun-lighted reign

of million'd wonder,

 

this rock garden--

sandstone temple of

cosmic being

 

 

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Live Branch Reach

 

Writhing twists of growing

Corded effort stretched

Out westward

 

From the knotted

Leaning

Shadow dark

Trunk,

Bright sunlight

On the contorted

Slow-year braided flow,

 

Tribulating

Over

Dry boulders,

Stone-strewn

On the sand-creeked

Streambed;

 

Stretched wooden waves

Driftwood

Wrenched,

 

Intertwined effort

Convoluting,

Live branch reach

 

Tributaries

Flowing west with new green growth

Behind and above

The under shadows

On that barred river sand,

 

Living driftwood river

 

 

1^st pub in

Western Friend Magazine,

also in Willows Wept Review and

selah river poetry collection