Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Global Warming Mug
Saw at a shop in Stratford-Upon-Avon of all places. Had to have.
Available from the Unemployed Philosophers Guild.
[Damn, check out the nifty watches. I may have to start wearing them again.]
Monday, June 29, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Must have French blood...
not generally known for
their happy endings
***
Dude! Rich and famous
what could you possibly be
so depressed about?
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
The Death of Handwriting
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Not What I Expected
A surprise that—
I thought them
Too long on the shelf
For a comeback
But no, there they are
Bright green as they push
Bulbous heads up through the soil
Looking faintly alien
Until leaves unfold
And the broccoli, bless them!
Still throwing out tender shoots
Topped with tiny flowerets
Still a serving for two
About once a week
I circle the yard
Bees thrum on onions and mustard
Gone to blossom, making
Wry-tasting honey, I imagine
It’s finally rained enough
For the jasmines to put out leaves
Fresh fodder for army worms
I make a mental note
To get out the Conserve
My hip aches
As I trip over the hose
My stomach slightly upset
From the evenings too much
Cheap whiskey and Coke
Last night I was thinking
About how cruel youth was
To spend itself
So unwisely
This morning
As I make neat coils of the hose
I think about
Keeping on.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Bottle Dreams
Dawn makes a rainbow of sorts.
Blue and green, amber and brown,
off the broken glass outside your window.
You smile at me, white teeth a shock
in this rainbow world.
The egg runs yellow and oval
in your black pan.
I watch your shoulders
square and round, t-shirt bright white
in the morning sun of another day
that I sit silent.
You fold your hands
and I see in their shape
my heart, lily-white, in your hands.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
What the Weaverbird Knows
10,000 years to cry
10,000 years to remember
Endless time waiting to die
Love came with no promises
Love swept you up from the plain
Love in the end was a devil
And now you are caught in his game
So fly away, fly away, weaverbird
But first sing me a song of home
Sing me a song of the sunshine
While love picks me bare as a bone
For Nada
Who only loved
Too much
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Escaping Flatland
There comes the realization
it’s all changing.
Spider veins become spider maps you could move
a horse and buggy around.
Wipe rust off
foggy mirrors
and peer uncertainly
at a face that’s no longer yours.
Time your messages.
Let egos break eggs, open cans.
It’s of no significance.
You can let sleeping dogs lie.
We’re baptized by unnecessary actions.
Take care of yourself, now.
Fine cracks start to appear
and you could fall between them.