Diluted answers reign

Diluted answers reign

More for function than fact

No empathy empire

Just needs to be enact

Counterfeit money is

Handed out to the poor

So they are arrested

When it’s used at a store 

The perpetual plow

The perpetual plow

The years without harvest

Finally the future

Closer now the farthest

Scarecrows rising as kites

Celebrations of feast

Preserving the plenty

For the long winter fleeced

Nothing fantastical

Nothing fantastical 

Park benches and streetlights 

You’re handsome in blue like

Summer skies on late nights

Busy intersections 

Are framing our brief rest

Nothing settled in stone

A trough awaits our crest

Engaging the twilight

Engaging the twilight

In the lesser contrast

Sun striking tree matches

Lines for starfishes cast

The powers of picnic

Did you have a nice day

Crowns of contentment and

Decrees of a heyday

“Renascence” would not fit

“Renascence” would not fit

On a napkin or slip

And a lonely haiku

Would feel more like a blip

Forty-eight syllables 

Written on store receipts

A thought or a journey

Us here as day repeats

I cannot swim the day

I cannot swim the day

Both words said and unsaid

A full tide coming in

Drowning meant and instead

Should arms become wings and

Red-eye towards tomorrow 

But time has no hurry

And there is no borrow

Under silver clouds like

Under silver clouds like

Billowing satin sheets

We travelled in the arts

Up and down city streets

Ice cream cones mimicking

In front of Henry Moore

The best art is living

Not sold in any store