ROYAL WEDDING
War and famine fade
it just takes one great dress
Kate and William wed
Category: String Too Short To Save
REFRIGERATOR
REFRIGERATOR
Milk, eggs, cheese, meat
on the door the children’s art
bodies and souls are fed
SOUND THINKING
SOUND THINKING
If a group of crows is a murder
a group of grackles must be
a massacre
SHYLOCK’S SHADOW
SHYLOCK’S SHADOW
If you are cut, do I not bleed
NEWS IN THE NIGHT
NEWS IN THE NIGHT
Tin roof tat-tat-tattling
the rains are back
GRACKLES IN AUSTIN
GRACKLES IN AUSTIN
Crows
that couldn’t make the choir
singing in protest
VIEW TO THE EAST
VIEW TO THE EAST
Reading haiku
in the limb veined dawn
I do not long for spring
HALF AND HALF
HALF AND HALF
Obama’s black here
if he ran in darkest Africa
would he be white?
TOO BIG TO BE TRUE
TOO BIG TO BE TRUE
It is as hard for me to believe
that Barack is alive
as it is to believe
that Kennedy is dead
SPRING BREAK UP
SPRING BREAK UP
A mile away at midnight
the river grinds its
new white teeth
If it has its way
the bridge will be
gone by dawn