Short Pieces--Revisions

Revisions

Choices

Mud or ice

Clings or cuts

Drags or does not yield

Guitar

Taut strings fight

The caution of my soft fingers

Stinging

Snapping

Biting

Felling

Rushing

Cracking

Crashing

And the dull thud

As the trunk falls

Sonnet

Velociraptor Sonnet

I pray, my gentle reader, heed this word

Of caution, and then call forever law

This precept: Never be allured

By sparkling white velociraptor jaws.

The shining teeth, with sharp and shapely points,

Arranged in rows along the charming grin,

It snaps with mannerisms stately, coy,

Or filled with charity, quite mild and prim.

Beware the lizard! Do not trust its smile

Nor venture to befriend it though it seems

Beneficent, magnanimous, benign.

I caution you, it only wants a feast.

For if you think velociraptors kind,

Your education will bring your demise.

Short Pieces--Part 4

Fruit

Spinning the orange globe

In one

Rough

Hand

While the other hand guides

The spoon

Around

Around

Around

To peel it

Impact

Rushing

Cracking

Crashing

And the dull thud

As the trunk falls

Dream

Gershwin

And the night

Outside

The window filled

With my

Own

Thoughts

Short Pieces--Part 3

#Philosophy

Who do you think you are #Kierkegaard

#More Philosophy

If everyone #Kant

#EvenMorePhilosophy

Moving on #Hegel

Short Pieces--Part 2

Guitar

Strings react

Unpredictable, confused

Against the caution of soft fingers

Guitar

Fingers stretch

Forget, remember

Patterns form, dissolve

Familiar, strange

Feeling

Mud gives, drags, clings

Ice cuts and does not yield

Short Pieces--Part 1

Snow

 A bride wears white lace

What royalty would think a gown of diamonds no

Extravagance?

Mouse

It froze

Like an explorer headed north

But unremembered

Snow

Spun clusters melted on my bare palm

An avalanche

Would have drowned me

Writing Plan Exercise

A Writing Plan

15 minutes

At 11 pm

Each night

Except when the hours build up on my eyelids and

I

Can’t

Stay

Awake

In which case

15 minutes

Somewhere between Philosophy and Chapel, or Chapel and Philosophy, or Philosophy

And that other class

Poetry

I will write with my computer

If I remember it

Or use the notebook

In which I scribble down those things people say and don’t realize are

Poetry