Playoff Basketball
Watching basketball
With Vivi requires patience
For yelling at refs,
Critiquing shot selection,
And laughing at bad passes.
Playoff Basketball
Watching basketball
With Vivi requires patience
For yelling at refs,
Critiquing shot selection,
And laughing at bad passes.
Invective
Riding, I’d never
Use a four-letter word to
Describe a driver.
Not when longer words
Are much better to mutter.
Hunting Camp
A door, a wide porch
Cordwood for the cast-iron stove
A table, chairs, beds
The window the bear camethrough
Mud Creek rippling past outside
The College Bubble
So much hydration!
Statements of preferred pronouns
Rusted-chain bikes and
Fancy skateboards everywhere
Bare feet in the library
Nesting
Meanwhile Mrs. Finch,
Snugged into her own brown cape,
Mines twigs from a shrub.
One in ten is good enough
For her to fly to their nest.
Preening
Shrugging, the house finch
Billowed his cape on the breeze
Fine, faint red feathers
Glowed along its inner hem
Matching the hat on his head.
Jane!
Fun with deafness today:
At the gym I heard someone
Yell “Jane! Jane! Jane! Jane!”
Actually, batting practice:
Baseballs struck by metal bats.
Lexicon
I don’t hear myself
Saying things my dad once said,
With two exceptions:
“Asinine” and “absurd,” two
Valuable words these days.
Into the Wild
Chris McCandless went
West and north to find himself
But infamously
Died, starved, alone in the woods.
What to make of the effort?
The Elements
One reason I like
To commute by bike each day
Is that those minutes
In the air remind me that
Wind and water don’t relent
Normal Odd
Somewhere: parrots, not
Robins. Monkeys, not squirrels.
Wildebeest, not deer.
If I lived there, I’d never
Get used to that normal odd.
Plow Night
In the warm spring dark
I hear a monster dragging
Its tail forth and back
Some dirt drifts a mile to me
But most stays in the furrows