February 2021
Bio Note: I live in Berkeley, California where I have been teaching meditation to
children in my community for fifteen-years. I am a multiple Pushcart Prize and Best Of The Net
nominee, and the author of nine books of poetry.
light weight of everything
because everything today
is happening like a dream
gentleness pleasure
sunbeams placing their heat
the voice of a child passes by
a young mother’s movements
as rhythmic as dancing
her enormous earrings
and darting eyes
her delicate voice with the child
from the road, a boombox-beat,
a car stops,
and with vibrating windows
the car invites the mother and child
I glimpse the driver’s smiling face
because today the satisfied sky
has a blue glow but the car
is a thundering instrument,
walking-by, a gray-haired man
motions his hands in disapproval
©2021 DAH
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