jan jan

This first month grey
Gets a little long in the tooth
A dental film that keeps on looping
Relentless in minutes hours days of gloom
Rooms to roam and get lost in
Sliding down the hall in socks
And driving with EFE turned up high
Helps to beat away the blues
Brushing if not flossing
The snow is melting on the bird feeder
The squirrel is maxxed out
Tall tail
Peanuts claimed maimed devoured
Putting the yam jam in jan jan
Hawaiian impatiens impatient for spring

what in TarNation?

Tar Nation?!
what bubbles up in Tar Nation
stays in Tar Nation
for now
ahhhhhhhhhhh
the land of miracle mud

what in TarNation?!
a little bit of
bit
you
men

New Year's Day Wasp

On the 53rd parallel
The night of the first
Wings, hums and stinger
A groggy guest mid-winter
harbinger of industry
And slumbers
Word nests and wispy blankets
Unexpected visits from ethereal friends
Fading paper whites and crisp yellow jackets
There's a place for you next to the pomegranates
No need for resolutions
Fly as you are

bears

sugar bears
honey bears
rice wine vinegar bears
black bears
brown bears
off white/burnished truffle bears
sun bears
moon bears
ball bearing bears
Teddy Roosevelt picnic bears
nitpicking picky bears
grizzly bears
dizzy bears
sad cannibal polar bears
dumpster diving downtown Vancouver bears
barely bearable dancing bears
sneezing
snoozing
hibernating
all in good time
bears

elevens

kitten snuggle love up to thigh
stereo tubes tinkling settling ebbing
pre Christmas cactus blooms waning
(early pink upstarts fading on limbs)
avocado chip fingers sliding on keyboard
tasty tasty tasty
recollections of near miss wipeouts/icy sidewalks/Marx bros. composure
Sunday's freezing rain come Monday
talks in Durban balks in Durban time for serious time outs
time for change in Durban
approaching the eleventh hour of the eleventh month
in the year of eleven
elevenses
elevens
eleven

oh

occupy humanity

all saints

a reprieve for geraniums
live to live another day
ebbing sun
fading lipstick blooms
another night
another day
crimson kisses
mountain ashfall
another night
another day