February 2025
Bio Note: I have been writing actively and often daily for many years. Upcoming book from Lavender Ink Books is Escritoire. I have had the pleasure of appearing in Verse-Virtual before. I walk a great deal, and I work much of the time.
Open-Ended Question
A herd of cantaloupe
like blond duckpin bowling balls
thunders down the slope
trampling California poppies
once upright along vivid silt.
The spheres smash open
splashing salmon-colored water
and thick fruit across the hillside.
Sweet phytonutrients meant to boost
immunity splay into nature's road rage
minus the road and colliding with
an open-ended question.
Kazaar
I need hand-crafted jolts
with aromatic notes of peppery intensity
ripe for office mornings. That we may last
together through ischemic daylight
dodging bouts of snark beyond
the Rabelais in time.
A whispered allemande draws
to natural rusticity posing
at water's edge, prepared
to dazzle clean a memorable siege
of chlorine blue.
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