my willpower has become
a fraction of what it was—
my sweet tooth is now
much greater than my resolve—
and the laboratory reports
that my blood glucose
no longer measures in
milligrams per deciliter—
but in sugar cubes squared
ha ha
funny, or at least I think so
Party angels
Every time a champagne bottle pops, a party angel gets its wings.
Wilted
The past falls away in wilted petals,
New things will come, probably nettles.
A life with papers
Any real writer — or reader — has had a papercut on the forehead
Unreasonably warm in Phoenix
We live in an Arizona desert town
where winter is brown and green
and summer is green and brown
with 300 annual days of sunscreen
our autumn’s unreasonably warm
and springtime is mostly too hot
here we live for every rainstorm
and the seasons—well, they’re not.
Sonoran seasons
Winter in Phoenix is springtime
Spring is summer askew
Summer is torturous hellfire
Autumn is summer part II
Talking inside out
Friends make you smile — best friends make you giggle ’til you pee
Projected
Many of my one-hour projects take half an hour to start and several years
Fertilize & philosophize
Weeds —
is there really evil in their hearts
or are they simply feisty seeds —
ambitious verdant darts,
proliferous garden art?
Classics declassified
Grass of Walt
[D!@%] of Moby
Boz gets Lit
Bard’s the [$h¡t]
Emily’s dash
Say what! You mean
That’s not why they call it an
Em dash? — those Dickinson
Hyphens between?
@Risk
Life is like running with scissors
naked through freezing blizzards
Don’t-do-it list
currently i am about halfway through
doing the list of things i swore before
i would never ever do when i got old