Black slippery dangerous
ice coats my upper deck
warns me to step carefully through life
at least today
The ice we don’t see threatens us the most
Black slippery dangerous
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Category Archives: Arts
A year of poetry
The changing of the year is a time for both looking back and looking forward. One of the ways I like to look back is by remembering some of the best books I’ve read during the past year. For me, this has been a year with a lot of poetry—and poetry by writers I’ve never before encountered. Continue reading
My dog knows why I swear in the kitchen, part 2
Because one set of haiku simply doesn’t do justice to the speed with which she comes running when she hears me swear…
Vacuum cleaner dog
as long as you’re in the house
food spills clean themselves.
No mops needed here.
Your tongue outscrubs, out-Swiffers, Continue reading
Haiku for occupational therapy
Warming… comforting…
Fluido, I will miss you
when therapy ends.
Did I spell that right?
Fluido, a friend whose name
I never quite learned, Continue reading
This morning, part 2
I saw the Virgin in the sky this morning
Round
White
Luminous
Inscrutable Continue reading
Oklahoma
Green.
Greener than I expect.
West from Oklahoma City,
drive toward sun,
toward desert,
toward lapping ocean, Continue reading