Friday, January 27, 2023

okay

I am enveloped by a film
it's paper thin and brittle

the slightest poke will make it tear
and leak venom and spittle

the leakage gets on everything
it's caustic and it burns

and when I try to clean it up
it spreads at every turn

making all that's good and fair
a pestilential goo

unless I keep control of it
it just might get on you

and so I sit
perfectly still

to keep myself at bay
and ponder what's

inside this film
the one I call okay

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Thursday, August 18, 2022

anticipation

stone passes
wonder colors relief
lurkers at the wake

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Wednesday, July 27, 2022

context

a soup sandwich …
let that marinate

 

is not that bad

in fact it’s rather good

 

when served in a bowl
with a spoon

 

toasted please


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Monday, January 31, 2022

non sequitur

global pandemic
environmental collapse
inequality
certainly priorities
at which egos seem to balk

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slippery slope

a little nuance
allowing you to infer
your heart's desire

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Thursday, October 28, 2021

Red

possessing quiet competence she flies
and touches lives
she touches lives across the enterprise
for good
invariably for good
when all is done and said

then again with quiet competence she flies
and leaves our eyes
she leaves our eyes with tears
and a reflected touch of red
invariably good
she is
when all is done and said

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Inspired by and for Erin Holmes.

Monday, May 31, 2021

in which we learn from our mistakes

sometimes the cream
that rises up
is little more than scum

contaminates
both left and right
and beats an evil drum

divisive and
exclusionary
fomenting lies and hate

distracting from
the work at hand
with spin that won't abate

while tendrils
quietly invade
and suck the body dry

naught but a
monumental
husk remaining to decry

the narcissistic
suffocating
self promoting lot

we let engage
our baser selves
while they float up on top

---

how can we
overcome this spiral
vampiric decay

first pause and breathe
remembering
kindness wins the day

in every
interaction
be it large or be it small

the path to kindness
must be clear
or else we take the fall

and darkness
tempered not by stars
becomes our promised land

---

when leaders we've
anointed channel
orange hate and fear

they threaten
with their sneers and smirks
the things we hold

most dear
the freedom to be
who we are

despite prevail-
ing preferences
and sensibilities

these leaders as
they beat their drums
forfeit our fealty

and represent
not progress but
a selfish reality

which we taking
the higher road
vote irrelevancy

in favor of
the kindness which
our legacy becomes

in knowing there
is always time
to just vote out
the bums