Today's faint praise

Today I am grateful
my knee gave out
5 steps from my door
not further away

One of those days

after the third bruise

it's time to call it a day

to prevent further harm

August clouds

I can't tell you how

beautiful the clouds are now 

August goes too fast

Guilty Pleasures

Tiny Adorable Dog cries alone
heart broken, and I take this chance
to lie on the deck without having
to inhale their cigarette smoke

Cicadas

cicadas
too loud for comfort
beautiful

stray poetry book

stray poetry book
hiding on nonfiction shelf
stealthy ninja truth

why I accomplished nothing of import yesterday

exhaustion weighs, and
every day is shorter now
hammock is calling

view from the hammock

layers of clouds flow
in different directions
making us dizzy

after the concert

fingernail moon
follows me home
throat raw from singing

distracted driving

for days clouds have been
distractingly beautiful
so it's hard to drive