Nacho de Macho

~ He loves it      when women       come into view: He thinks      about sex –       If they      only knew!   The young ones,      the old ones,       and pretty ones      too – Indiscriminate!      he is,       to all      but a few.   His wife      will not bother,       she doesn’t care – She knows      […] Continue reading

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Ars Vivendi

~ Hail! to the mountains, munificent land. Symbols of power, they tower, transcend. Praise for the rivers, the mountains then send down unto oceans, that nest next to sand. Here’s to the oceans, on which life depends. We forget how, somehow, everything blends. Blessed be hours, too short, that life lends; the glorious stories, each […] Continue reading

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Ariadne’s Twine

~ “to write a poem is to explore the unknown capacities of mind….”         well   if that be the case       then mine is well known   it being the most capacious of kind   there is so much space       I get lost       in the place   where most times I’m […] Continue reading

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Disappearance

~ Once was a family,       A patriarch, head; Now, an anomaly;       The patriarch dead.   No bond can hold up,       For long, I am told; But then, each a story,       Uniquely condoled.   Patriarch, matriarch,       Of figurehead, old; Each category       Obliquely extolled.   Out from disorder       An order […] Continue reading

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Evolution

~ They cluster in order To gather the nectar.   The goal       For the whole –             Survive!   Each one,       Alone; En masse,       At home.   They strive       That the hive             Will then thrive.   Colony rectors; Each one, protector;   For the six weeks,       At least!             […] Continue reading

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Latter Day Man

I don’t know, but think so. I don’t understand.   I’m slow on the up-take, But fast with a hand   To help a good neighbor, Or helping a friend –   I glow in the up-beat, A latter day man.   What Charlie hath saith I dare countermand,   But Natural Selection? It’s more […] Continue reading

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a moment on moment

~ a table, a chair, immobile air; outside comfort, a languid affair. a robin appears, thinks it quite queer, one man at table, sitting in chair. ~ hello, mister robin, oh, so aware. the man at the table and robin each stare, one unto other when another appears: an indigo bunting from out of nowhere. […] Continue reading

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For Two Tales To End Well

~ Here are two stories     that need being told, One of the young man,     the other of old:   Into the young eyes     pristinely set cold, Each thing a new ring     inwardly flows.   ~ An old man before him     bears dust and grows mold – For reverence, first severance, […] Continue reading

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Equivoque

~ Someone complaining of recent affairs:      “The country was ‘falling apart.”    He was airing ‘our’ laundry  with someone else there –    a Jan Van Someone,  not from ’round here.       “There isn’t one race      that runs the whole place.     That is your problem I fear.  […] Continue reading

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Diana’s Quatrain

i   My, Oh My! Oh my! What a sight. I saw her again. I saw her last night.   She lit up the air In her radiant white. My, Oh My! The goddess of light.   Always, on toward; Somewhere, but forward. Onward, endured, The mantel of Right.   Steadfast, assured; Implacably froward; Fast […] Continue reading

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The Heart of the Beast

~ There’s just so much non-sense     a soul can endure From the trivial minded,     decided, obdure.   I met one once     lambasting for sure The current administration:     denigration, impure.   Oh sure.  They do it.     Again and again. Forever and ever,     and on to no end.   Things are […] Continue reading

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Spanglish

~ Alvin Valdez and I would wend Our way    down main    at lunchtime.   A bookstore    in store    much long before The store became such the main focus.   A conglomerate deal With central appeal   To the coffeehouse weal, The Barnes and Noble house status.   A long tall hall, poor light and all, […] Continue reading

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Mythopoeia

~ A blank sheet of paper     Awaits to be filled; Marks, unto letters;     Words, to be spilled.   Lines, run to margins,    To keep them entailed: Thoughts put on paper,     Potential, trammelled.   Like gardens that taper     From fresh fallowed fields, Thoughts are the crops,   […] Continue reading

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Nuevo Méjico por la Noche

~ The sun shines bright     even at night   where millions of stars     show off their lights   in Navy blue sky     pinpricked by sight,   Nightlights highlights     the ground all around   ‘Til the moon takes her flight     and drowns the crowd down.   Ah!  las tierra     bella […] Continue reading

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Was Isn’t

~ Austin, Texas     is ten times bigger Than the town     that I used to know.   Those Longhorn Steers,     the way I figure, Fifty some-odd     years ago,   Were 80k number     where now it’s just under A million or more     souls or so.   Should I go back there […] Continue reading

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