every day the mountain's
snow patch seems smaller
Sudden cool shadow
as I lay reading the
word"Coolness" in a book
Unbelievable—
caging this
beautiful birdfor our amusement
*
Fitness club entrance—
a drowsy slouching woman
lights a cigarette
Little puff of cloud
hanging in a blue
noon sky—a man's yelling face
Cool summer morning—
the cat gazes at me,
then goesback to eating grass
*
Like an insistent
old friend visiting
again—this morning's boner
A bird flees the
blast
of a siren's scream
somewhere—cat yawns and stretches
A sudden wind like
the pouring of a
bucket—the rippling grasses
*
Little gnat struggling
in a pool in a beer glass—
my penknife saves it
His ironic nose—
when he's sincere it
betrayssomething cynical
The cat hides her
face
while sleeping the
sunlight—breath rises and falls
*
Domed sky with splotches
of twilit clouds—all my life
I've been a fool
Broken moods of
three
different wines at
dinner—half-empty bottles
Summer afternoon—
she enters the dark
house, skyblazing behind her
*
Vast tiger head
presiding in a cloud
bank—look back and it’s gone
Lonely little face
in a knot in the
floorboard—too sad to believe
Brilliant green leaves
rippling in a pouring breeze—
sleepy chirping bird
*
A yellow spider
crawling up my brown pant leg—
does he think it’s earth?
Walking west at
dawn,
our long shadows
precede us—bird cries like a child
.
