The Hair of the Hound

~ My dogs are my chums, the best chums of mine – I haven’t just one, but two. They’re both of a kind really quite fine – At my age, good friends are few. We’re walking the block, a diurnal walk, Down a street, a street called Calhoon; When all of a sudden! out of […] Continue reading

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Tales of the Tribe

  Tales of the Tribe http://wp.me/p102ON-E6  Synopsis: Society creates the stories it tells itself: factual, specious, apocryphal, dishonest; by any rendition, according to Wallace Stevens, will still be a fiction.  Myth wears the clothes of its culture, will always be a social fact, and those who would eschew these basic facets of humanity, will prove […] Continue reading

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Poetic License

~ I cannot     I will not I do not    read others… Lest, one day     They may come And grift me,     My brothers,   By saying    I’ve copied,     Lifted or stole Ideas from them,     From poems I had read.   But…      I have to look! Sometimes I look. Oft times […] Continue reading

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Mesa Verde

~ Pueblo por Pueblo Stacked within arms To protect you, Secreto, From dangerous harms.   Some blessed by agua, Some, none at all. Pueblo poor Pueblo, Stone, in stone walls.   One year, acuerdo, Another, que no.   ¿Estuve que libre, En stanzas escriben, Que hace contigo Libre también, O este de no?   Pueblo […] Continue reading

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From a Grain of Salt

  The Written Word is a Magical Thing;   Most Actions, however, are Boring…..   From Action, some say,     one lays claim to fame.   I’m sorry, but that smacks     bassackwards.     In Words, which are written,     Languages, spoken, Concepts, Percepts, Ideations;     in these!  to me […] Continue reading

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