SHORT AND SOUR

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090610

INTERROGATED

What do you do with them;
your guts, once spilled?

Or with yourself,
raw from being grilled?


090609

AT A LOSS

Where the error,
the wrong turn, the mistake—
that I should come to die
and not have come awake?


090608

YE WHO ENTER

There is no cure
for the "pome du jour."


090607

WEBBED FEAT

followed, following
selecting, selected

hyper-kinetically
cyber-connected


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Short & Sweet

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090606

CHOOSE WISELY

Feel glad, always feel glad:
that is success… even when
(especially when!)
life deals a mess.


EXHORTATION

Listen, Sport, life is short:
enjoy your quota—each iota!


090605

LAKE SEEN

Small abandoned dog.
Buzzard mid-road, feasting on fish.
Five ducks, nearly tame; one badly injured.
Large abandoned dog.


ASIDE: The 5th mallard cannot eat.
Something bright-orange dangles from its bill;
a fishing lure, I believe.


090604

INACTION IN ACTION

Body indoors, working.
Mind outdoors, shirking.

It is spring, isn't it?


090603

INSIDE SCOOP

Feel free
to wait seeming lifetimes
for significant others
to recognize your courage
and your contributions.

Feel free to depend
on their accolades
and reassurance.

Or, just... feel free.


DIRECTIONAL

Emma, you are a trial!

Translation: I am so scared for you!
Darlin’, it’s night. Where are you?

Yes, yes, I know; you are expressing
your freedom.

You innocent, brave, and so-vulnerable
blind being—you know nothing of
cats and coyotes.

May familiar sounds and scent-paths
quickly lead you home; or just tune into
the homing signal of my love.


090602

RELATING

A man went swimming
in Hickory Creek Park
Sunday afternoon and drowned.

Most likely, people say,
he just got tired:
that's the story.

He just got tired.


090601

CYBER FRIENDS

It could all blink out,
you know; the internet.

When I think about that,
I'm so glad we met!


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