go up and fly
leap up into thunderous airs
far from my eyes
leave me planted
on trembling legs.
i would not be so small-souled
as to begrudge any creature
the chance to fly.
go up and greet the morning
in the sky.

HELLO MY NAME IS
VICTORY
i'm from the top of a mighty tree
and the bottom of the sea.
you'll meet me, occasionally,
but chances are, just briefly.
I'm transient, you see.

when she was young, my mother decided to put
all her mistakes in jars. She
lined them up on the windowsill and on shelves in the cellar
& then grew up.
Once I followed the cat down the stairs and saw those dusty rows of experience,
and it frightened me to
count them out. i want to ask my mother
why she never taught me how to can,
but
something about all those jars
makes me think
i
understand.

copycatting brian andreas

if your heart had a password she said, it would be peach cobbler or something but then he put down his spoon & kissed her. it would be your peach cobbler.

Decision

The bumper sticker said Cross the Sea or Stay and he chose and so did she, so now she's swimming across an ocean of tears

those poor rats

NO
FOOD OR
DRINK IN LAB

stream of consciousness

Tremble, Prudence, we are remodeling your house into something lovely; French windows open on the spreading yard where we're replanting the Victory garden with camilla bushes and gracefully weeping willows. Here, we will put in a fountain that the children can splash in, and there, out on the West lawn, we will put in a tennis court where the fathers and their daughters can breathe strenuously wearing pastel-colored summer clothes. We have done away with the high ceilinged nursery and the governesses back bedroom, and I'm afraid the butler's pantry has also been replaced by a breakfast nook and rubber plants.

You see, my dear, once you offer to sell, you cannot control what your new tenants will do.

Confessions of a Wolf

wade the night
through snow or owl calls or whatever else comes to mind. Night
is dark.
Dark is
not dark to me
and when the pack falls behind
and i drink from the icy
stream
i live. i have teeth. I live.

many much

there were three alligators and only one of me, he said, puzzled. Maybe I don't believe in majority rule

styrofoam monday

some days, she said, all the human interaction i get is a smile from the kitchen worker as i throw out my empty cup