Category: Travel
A Picture Poem
Degrees of Separation
Negative Space in New York City
Austin Again
SEOUL SUNSET
SEOUL SUNSET
Watercolor sky
boats islands and water too
sunset landing Seoul
I GO WHERE THE WILD GOOSE GOES
I GO WHERE THE WILD GOOSE GOES
Smiling tip of the V
at the start of every trip
Last bird on the left
dragging my feathers home
WAIRARAPA
WAIRARAPA
The road
from Wellington
up into the Wairarapa
is a steep and winding road
through green as green as Irish envy
If you keep your eye
on the center line of the road
your breakfast may stay where you put it
If you look down
along the cliffs and crags
all the hardness wrapped in soft
to count the valley cows and sheep
your stomach will forgive you
tomorrow or the next day or the next
and you will always have today
WRITING THE AUSTRALIA TRIP
WRITING THE AUSTRALIAN TRIP
We went to teach, we went to learn
we did a lot of both and more of some
We met amazing people – they met us
perhaps none will be the same again
Details I leave for further poems
which I hurry to hurry to write
before the ripples rippling out
are lost
clockwise and counter clock
down the toilet bowl of time
CANADA GEESE
CANADA GEESE
The Veeing geese fly freer now
across the autumn sky
No longer do they gorge
on my father’s golden grain
No longer do I lie in wait
twelve gauge at the ready
to bring them in for dinner