A yellow jacket
Pulsed while scaling candied ham
Then braced, sawed a piece
Away it swayed amongst oaks
Cicadas shrilled loud and hot

I stood there, upon
An aggregate of needles
Harbor behind me
Tired fluorescent sign in front
Then got on my bike and rode

The band plays loudly
Well dressed rhinos and cougars
Pose and line up for action
I catch your eye and exit
You follow me and escape

Malicious gossips
Spitting in each others ears
Lips flapping wildly
In mad haste to be the first
To sink the knife and turn it

Yellow ochre clouds
Strumble across the dark sky
Scraping sawtooth peaks
A flash explodes, blinding me
I flee down the mountainside

Blown glass Ornaments
Sprinkled with crushed glass frosting
On the fragrant tree
Below, a child stares, beguiled
Nearby the hearth snaps and pops

Silver horizon
Clouds stretched across it's bright arc
Black cutouts of ships
Within the fluorescent glow
Like thoughts in my mind's furnace

Dealing with the mad
You have to find their logic
And build from there
Though it really can be said
There are many points of view

She guides him to her
Silently and urgently
Outside, rain falls hard
Cars make wet pavement hisses
And sirens wail through the night

Splendorous visage
Silver creased and amber lined
Your gaze ensnares us
With visions false and true
You give life and then we die

Soft blue shadows
On deep and fleecy snow
Hiding what's beneath it's blanket

Soft blue shadows
Beneath the dead grey sky
A tiny cabin sits snowbound

Soft blue shadows
Through barbwire brambles I
Stare to see if life is within

Soft blue shadows
As from the brick chimney
Thin dark smoke is falling straight up

Soft blue shadows
Within a small landscape
So familiar, so remote

I light the kindling
And a warm and orange glow
Fills the little room
Outside, from afar, wolves howl
As the moonlit snow sparkles

From tiny to huge
Bells ring, chime and clang brightly
Across night's dark vault
And the silent snow drifts down
Filling my heart with good cheer

"You are my first love!"
I stopped, smiled and asked, "Your first?"
She answered, "Indeed."
Rolled the dice across the board
I looked and she had boxcars!

High up in a tree
An orange and battered leaf
Twists, turns and flutters
The passing raven calls,"prruk!"
Beneath the dark blue mountain

And when I touched her
A fiery blaze burned through me
Now aching for more
I no longer cared at all
If tomorrow came or not

Manzanita bush
Dry, rust red and bleached limbs twist
Above, eagles soar

Picking up agates
Ragged brown waters bare teeth
Glacier huge above

Soft light creeping in
I sip coffee, hot and black
Glimpsing back, I tilt my chair
Blue sky through spruce boughs
Retrospective of your eyes

Gray fluorescent sky
Sharp, crisp, cutout horizon
Autumn colours pop
I stop, savoring the view
People hurry past, unmoved

Why do you attack
One another without remorse
And no good intent
Caring not what you destroy
Being entropy's patsy

The rain smashing down
Hard, fast, and spiking back high
Soaked, we laughed and ran
Through dancing pools on sidewalks
Hand in hand, slipping through leaves

Nothing else matters
And there's just you and me here
Your touch is of silk

Just today I read
That we are all somewhat daft
Not a curse, methinks

I lay on pine bows
Beneath a star splattered sky
And dreamt and then woke
She came to me in moonlight
Morning cast her far away

Finally rain comes
Rivers swell and falls cascade
Clouds cloak the mountains
And in the churning rapids
Salmon shimmer, leap and dance

Abrupt, blustering
Critical and quick to judge
What a fool I think

You, in long tweed coat
Spin, screaming, squirrel on chest
Nature abhors you

Deep inside of you
There glows a fire, warm and bright
My eyes reflect it

Polysyllabic
Gobbledygook and such like
Black's white and down's up

Your vivid colours
Delicate taste and sweet scent
Luminesce my soul

Buffeted by winds
Blind, within my chrysalis
Pulsing as I crawl
Through dense clouds full of rain
Always looking for a flame

Wet gusts burn my flesh
Tasting brine, I tack the deep
Heeling through the gale

Old Sol was setting
Shadows corked the valleys dark
And I cast a stone

Neath night's velvet cloak
All sequin strewn, I turned,
Faced the wall and cried

Reaching out I knew
That maybe I'd be bitten
Temptation drew me

Run before the wind
Pay out the mainsail and jib
Desire strongly gusts

A new day dawns bright
I sip cold and golden air
Contented to be

Firecrackers at night
Orange flash, saltpeter smell
Pumpkin flashes smile

The nail that sticks up
Gets hammered down, flush and tight
But the floor still creaks

Quantum gravity
Big and small or not at all
Stringing us along

Dry rusty brown leaves
Feet make crackles and whispers
Alone with my thoughts

Autumn's light was fair
Bright, crisp, clear, with subtle warmth
Cycled up then down

Scratch through the coating
To metal, then acid dip
clean, ink, pounce, and print

With thought's silver spark
Imagination's flame lights
Gauzy moths fly in

I will and must dream
but what you think may be right
Loves my ******

A geranium
pungent smell with scarlet blooms
Grandmother's blue eyes

Your haughty anger
And pedant revelations
Cry for a good laugh

We dreamt together
Neath the cobalt sky
Warm waves drenched our feet

As beautiful as
Otsuyu, lantern in hand
Wending through the fog