Creating art is a drug like any other; the only interesting thing is that it leaves your hallucinations behind.

May 17 2021

the crabapple tree is like

hey lawnmower guy

sorry I smacked your face but

you won’t find blossoms like these

just anywhere

May 17 2020

IOU

I owe you tulips for the yard,

beneath the arbor vitae.

By the time your birthday arrived

they were gone from the garden centers,

and the women told me I should come back in the fall,

when bulbs will be there ready

to be planted for the spring.

It's a long time to wait, but I will buy them.

Please keep this so you’ll remember to remind me.

May 9 2021

As yet light rain.

Two turkeys on a neighbor’s lawn

go unregarded.

He is

(buoyant rapturous eager riotous frantic)

loud,

alarm bell for the neighborhood,

howling other dogs awake

and announcing, like it or not,

that day is here.

No single word describes a morning hound.

May 1 2021