Would Have Been An Octogenarian

Plethora of syllables
favorite animal
pushing it past grabby
world word politics
too funny for the times
slinging it round and round
in the sublime territory
sometimes glimpsed
clipped away at
finished with grief
not really.

Chalk It Up

The call of the wild did exist on that planet. It had its seasons. Mirrors became the color of despair--silver. Animal cries were grayish lemon. Examples done up in pink. There was the robot blue. And, oh, the lime, like love. One person tried to package it and sell it to the schools. Quite a bundle was made before the next busy trend, the next futile orange.

Handwriting changed there. Each word was a little island. It looked green with garnet brilliance. The words described the planet a little fancier than it actually was but also a little duller. How could that be? Go figure! was a popular saying there, one of compassion without the grit.

My Time On Planet Asterisk

Halfway seen to the naked
I spent downtime
noticing small things
this freckle or that.

A planet much like Planet X
but not as sexy.  To go there
is extra watery.  It tries to spin
just like always
despite a large pull.

Lockige

Rich art artists
had more than
ketchup between
saltines in long ago
swampy Empire.

Relax Curly Easter**only slightly surreal

Funny how
you can
hang around
laugh like that
beyond when we said
yes I know modest swirl
last tip toe around
the mood of North Korea.
I studied the blossoms
their hairy openings
heard about the others
scent color shape whispers
not forgotten yet not drunk
on a past a past
that you describe the edge of.

PP & J

Out across there is a cone
called Lone Cone
way out from the green
table of sage and burnt juniper
burnt piñon pine and Ponderosa.
You can see it from here
also from Black Canyon
but not when you're in Grand Gulch
for instance where the sand is wet
and there was that vision.
See it?  What they saw?  Looking
at you now standing around
their complex irrigation system.

Spring Break

A place of puny lettering
the most simple words
could not be written
but botched mangled
again and again
the three-legged dog
could do better
the Icelandic pony
this was funny
up to a certain point
like math the years
but words do add up
youngish any which way
they're figured.