UNTITLED

thank you for the roses
by the wayside

thank you for the thorns

PORTMANTEAU

it was as if the word circled itself
on page 19
but certainly I must have done it
sometime after 3 a.m.
when I read your words
and asked, "What does that mean?"

you explained
and I fell
and the pen dragged
around the page

THOUGHTS ON A BIKE RIDE

Promise me we won't ever get a satellite dish

or use vinyl siding

or have a two-car garage


Promise me you'll sit with me on the porch

and help me garden in the yard

and ride with me like this

WRITING PROMPT: WHERE I WOULD LIKE TO GO ON VACATION AND WHY

I want to sail with my brother in Arichat harbor

on a boat he made with his own two hands.

We'll watch the Atlantic White-Sided Dolphins

race and feed alongside our boat.

When the sun gets low, we'll pull her into shore

and share a glass of wine on our porch.

June 2008