(September 12, 2019)
A blessing on your contrasts, Arcata-- baseball caps and dreadlocks, bicyclists and bikers, Budweiser 12-packs vying to outnumber Downtown Browns. Nuclear free zone where a 100 foot American flag waves...
(September 5, 2019)
On a socked-in foggy day A group of singers gathered Choosing songs, one by one Voices blending, layered. Celtic, pop, traditional Melodic pleas for peace The fourteenth century's John Ball...
(August 29, 2019)
From our silent little home between the sea and the bay We hear the waves; we almost hear the spray A light mist comes around to drizzle and drip Nearby,...
(August 15, 2019)
(For Shaggy) He wasn't big and he wasn't small. He lived to eat and to chase his ball. His raison d'etre: Fun, fun fun. His single speed was run, run,...
(July 25, 2019)
No ducks ply the slough, no great egrets glide. Wrung out clouds pattern the marsh in light ink. Air as crisp as cave-cooled watermelon. Silence ambushes me in this quiet...
(July 18, 2019)
Beautiful walk along Clam Beach shore Scampered over dunes and grass and more Driftwood wet upon the sand Placed there gently by ocean's hand A misty day, no sun is...
(July 11, 2019)
No longer willowy, taut and bronzed, perhaps faintly recalling their golden youth, they are pale fleshed; their yellowed skin contrasts with the scintillant, deep green river. They are round, dimpled...
(July 4, 2019)
How we were drawn into this light, Released from bedtime curfews, And freed from morning's grasp: Those signatories of winter With their dark ink now all blurred and faded. In...
(June 27, 2019)
Wondering when the other shoe will drop. The hammer will fall Wondering while my chicken cooks with rice Why others need a dime. A quart of milk. Ok. I am...
(June 20, 2019)
Dangles above the coastline Where countless stars and waves
Welcome me home.
One of these stars Is extremely rare
Having immigrated From a Dwarf Galaxy Far, far away ... All...
(June 13, 2019)
Eureka's sky does ominous so well! The unswerving day makes orderly retreat Down C Street, where mean hubcaps cast a spell From 101, subwoofers on the beat. Around the world...
(June 6, 2019)
Dedicated to my friend Tony Humbugs Westkamper and his lovely wife Hadassah The aging entomologist won his fair lady not with blandishments of youth – dancing, archery, bumpers of beer, dark-side...
(May 23, 2019)
My colors aren't quite shining, on this dim lit day. I'm usually pinks and purples, now I'm just plain grey. People see right through me, although I shine quite bright....
(May 16, 2019)
Dangles above the coastline Where countless stars and waves Welcome me home. One of these stars Is extremely rare Having immigrated From a Dwarf Galaxy Far, far away… All...
