Poem Category: Miscellaneous

furniture restore
the smells of a boyhood
out in the forest.

swinging curtains
in the cheval mirror
a hummingbird’s panic.

flickers of sleep
in late-night blues
the radio’s jazz.

season’s turn
the gold everywhere
ankle deep.

in salt-pan smells
dragonflies mate
along the breeze.

Zen garden
the cicada shrills too
diminished here.

Lift operator
whichever pretty girl
he coughs.

Harvest moon
the tom cats frozen
with snarls.

Scotch on ice
the whisky-grained caw
of a crow.

Being dawn
tree after tree
the shadows stretch.