Short Poems

I love the craic
of lake ice when it breaks
the news of thaw to the fish

Shasta Manzanita berries

candy the crumbling slope 

a volcano in waiting

Wintu crush and sup

the bitter juice

California Poppy

queen of a sunny day

sometimes the single life is best

Tag-Ulan

farmers rejoice 

to see the world in ruins

rain time

wild turkey strut

some birds prefer a bare scrabble

to a place at the table

the chillest hour

forced out of bed

to write in wolf sign

Ubud Streetside

mason jars

brimmed with gasoline

stock the roadside rest

tiny bamboo trays

weave the walk as prayers

to tourist gods

all the neighbors sit and clang

at evening gamelan