Like scattered birds, they circle back
hovering, fragments of faces, bits
of song fluttering and floating before me,
moments searching for a place to roost
within memory. Some high and bold
on bare branches singing yet, singing
always, while others light behind
a rustling wall of leaves to build nests,
mate and incubate quietly within me.
Bird’s Eye Gilla – April 11, 2011
Sometimes mindless creatures
of habit in bloom,
never sure who’s got whom.
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Blow Wives – April 6, 2013
Spreading seed on wider wings,
Dandelion
by any other name.
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Johnny Tuck – March 31, 2013
I can show up anywhere
yet never certain who
I want to be.
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Not wind through willow limbs that sing of rooted past,
but our first tunes, drummed upon catgut strings, cast
beyond early stirrings searching words to fit a melody
of earthly work, we find a moment’s worth of immortality.
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Purple Milkweed – May 2, 2011
Alien spaceships,
purple people eaters
or just milkweed in bloom.
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Fiddleneck – April 5, 2011
I’d make music
if I could only trumpet
from my fiddle neck.
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Phacelia (Scorpionweed) and Lichen – May 15, 2011
Competing everywhere you look
grace and color
growing together.
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Purple Chinese Flowers – April 5, 2011
Cleaning houses
in the high-rent district
has certain advantages.
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Wild Cumcumber, Sierra Man-root – March 10, 2013
No need to go to outer space
to touch the stars
sparkling at our feet.
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