Keeper of the Trees

Keeper of the Trees

For Andreas

This one always blooms

A little late. Its seedpods

Expand and white flowers

Spread from its leaves.

My mother kept it

From being cut down.

Andreas, with that

Wonderful warlock name,

Smoked magic when much younger,

And joined with trees.

I wish he were here

To coax my darling.

He would put his arms

Around the trunk

And feel.

I, so left brain verbal,

Would ask when it had

Its temperature taken.

But then I might ask

If it was smitten

With another tree

That no longer stood.

Andreas said

That the tree in his yard

Was cut down

By new people.

He never forgave them.

I have not forgiven

My mom for dying.

I cannot coax a tree

To live.

Andreas says

The magic returns at times

Then vanishes.

If I vanished,

Would the magic

Spell the tree to living?

Masselenary

Masselenary

(Incorporating images from books/fiction into what actually appears or occurs)


Through the window
of the bus
slithered Haddonfield Creek
brown and marshy
and on its way
to no good end

Could not stop thinking
of the Withywindle*


*J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring

Oridyct

Oridyct


A short part
of a personal speech
or spoken response
which, when played back,
epitomizes
the viewpoint
of an entire group
or body of people.

"I am my people's keeper."

"A nation is only as free
as its prisons."

"The azaleas bloom early"
is not an oridyct,
but an ecodyct.

Somewhere in the early spring sky,
the two meet
and a tree
hugs itself.

Spring Holiday

Spring Holiday

Lying in the grass

(not "laying")

and looking up

as the clouds float by

asking them 

nothing in particular

because they're not likely

to attempt to answer

but how nice

if cloud language

came with verbs 

of lazy and something

that loved 

soft

Schrodinger's Cat

Schrodinger's Cat


Half the cat is a cat...

Half the cat is a sister

to infinity

Half the cat flies
on another timeline

Half the cat
meows in a completely
different language

Half the cat
shakes hands
with an advanced
and thoroughly comprehending
being

Half the cat
discusses the politics
of the day


Half the cat
is and is and is not
then is more

Half the cat
becomes
redefines becoming

Half the cat
ultimately

uncats

recats