Reflections
On the occasion my 70th birthday

Who is that  

OLD BALD

SOB? 

Whoa is that - it's...

It's Grandpa!

So Oadys Messenger Griffith that

electrician 

farmer

Fisher of the Gasconade

has come back to life?

( one summer on the farm 

  I built traps and Grandpa said

  YOU'RE GOING TO CATCH A SKUNK! )

wait - just a minute...

HELLS BELLS and MADEMOISELLES

That's not Grandpa! 

it's...

it's...

me.

(may we all come back to life)

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(February 2025)

Arise, old goat, 

from your voluptuous pillow. 

Look - the moons of Jupiter, 

and the great horned owl, 

float overhead. 

And at dawn, 

wave upon wave

of blackbirds.

(October 2024)

One Night

One Night

for CK

Our hero chases a 

a white hummingbird 

no bigger than a fingernail

down a dirt road into a canyon

of sunflowers

He lunges for the tiny bird

misses, falls , hits 

his head on an ancient stone

which is the gravestone 

of his mother

Now the bird returns 

buzzes our fallen hero

cradles him in it’s wings 

which are the arms 

of his risen mother

But that too is a dream

(9/5/2024)

I was sitting outside very early in the morning looking at the stars when the moon rose up from behind the Sandia Mountains. When I came inside I had mosquito bites on my neck and ankle. 

the pale golden orb 

floats up from the dark mountain -

mosquito moonrise

(August 3, 2024)

old men love power 

they clap the sad music of 

dancing skeletons

(July 17, 2024)

 New Mexico Morning 

Clear night sky - a shooting star. 

The desert moon illuminates 

the mountain.

(May 24, 2024)

early metro ride 

to the dirt path by the lake, 

the city's old moat

(January 20, 2016)

Associated painting