PlantNotLay

Leave the past behind

March forward like Romans

But rather than laying

Waste to the countryside

Instead plant the seedlings

Of love hope wisdom

For those three things

Will gain a foothold

And bear bountiful harvest

Long after you’ve gone

MenHa

So many many men

Who look like men

Have egos as delicate

As a freshly iced

Pond in late November

One awkward step and

It disintegrates as quickly

As a sugar cube

Dropped into hot tea

And you’re left blinking

And wondering why what

Part of not interested

Is so damn damaging

As you watch them

Run under the hem

Of their mama’s skirt

SmallCorners

I think that what’s

Important is the small

Corner of the bigger

World we all live

In such a place

That corner which disappears

Like mist above ponds

Like dreams upon waking

But to us our

Very own tiny corner

Is enough to sweep

To tidy to decorate

And to welcome others

Whose own little corners

Got swallowed up by

This our round world

Firsts

What are the firsts

Of things called of

Things that before had

Been routine can the

Firsts of things previously

Known be anything other

Than normal what about

The firsts of things

Heretofore already experienced yet

Now proven different and

Curious what makes something

Old new again desire

Serendipity or maybe longing

For what had been

BottomsUp

I have always said

That the bottom is

The best place to

Start because everything else

Looks up from there

When down chin up

For when your chin

Is up so is

Your head and everything

Is shiny and new