frenzy!
white herons along
a fresh-sliced furrow

**
funny
she covered her smile
demurely

***
fanning
the dying embers
last barbeque

****

(for Katrina, American Idol Season 8 hopeful)


farewell
bikini girl, better luck
next thong



         your words

         forlorn, yet sooth like ice

         for my bitten tongue

 

                                                     blue lake

                                                     balms the scar of yesteryears'

                                                    copper harvests

 

         riverbend

         a leaf floats by

         then another


                                                     noon by the river

                                                     two men fish for lunch

                                                     while I eat mine


               orange grove

               green, yellow orbs ripe

               for the picking