Stern jungle natives draw sharp image deliver vivid dialogue.

Haiku

I was visiting a flower shop in Rancho Santa Fe and playfully touched one of the large wind chimes hanging outside. There followed a wonderful sequence of deep sounds.

Composed at a recent gathering of fellow poets!

This is an impression I got driving down H-2, crossing Kipapa Gulch

Looking for a couple of missing muses

I came to hear — the last train leaving Berlin escaping to the West, the only sane noise left in a young girls ears, blocking out the bombs, wiping them clean from her memory. I came to hear– the growl of empty stomachs churning, from too many days of gobbling raw potatoes, stolen from the…

At twelve my biggest problem was negotiating a weekly allowance. I earned money babysitting and dusting furniture for fifty cents an hour but that didn’t cut it especially when it came time to get my first training bra. Next to getting my “friend” the thing that terrorized me most was beefy Braun’s gym class. Man,…

Warm up for ten minutes to lubricate joints and stretch cold muscles. Today’s workout will stress barbell exercises Shrugs, upright rows and curls. Curls- I only have an hour I don’t have time to get my hair done.

Six words,that’s it!