Friday, February 27, 2026

Here behind the pylons

Here behind the pylons
Detours and caution tape
Under construction with
Pitfalls and rough landscape

Surveillance cameras
Private property signs
Walden Pond armory
Empathetic confines

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Envelopes and letters

Envelopes and letters
Loose sheets of thoughts and blank
Given in the darkness
Written on the edge plank

Pressed flowers in these words
So travel is not lost
And do not fall in love
With clouds at any cost

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Time pinched between fingers

Time pinched between fingers
A winter fog sleep walks
Trapped in a photograph
Of last season’s cornstalks 

All of the decades are
Compressed in decisions 
Children’s books to memoirs 
Missteps and precisions

Sunday, February 22, 2026

The chosen path is not

The chosen path is not
Wide and now seems too short
The mother and father
And their late life abort

Knowing what I know now
The effort without fruit
The impossible love
No matter the pursuit

Saturday, February 21, 2026

Rejecting recollect

Rejecting recollect
Not fearing present tense
Or fresh flashing forward
Not the hoarding of whence

Discovery default
Small buttons of wonders
Sharing of perspectives 
Humor at our blunders

Friday, February 20, 2026

Random harpsichord keys

Random harpsichord keys
The softness of the rain
Watercolor Rothko
Is washing the terrain

Daylight soon without sun
The traffic picking up
Driving through saucers and
Dodging the pothole cup

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Letting go of the sun

Letting go of the sun
The moon shortly after
A day and then distance
No roof and no rafter

No matter of pacing
Be it bull or ursus 
The grave plot reflecting
Us scratching the surface