LICHEN BENCHES

punctured
we leak

onto the lichen benches
of
the
struggling cemetery spring

squirrels there

on headstones

flaunting their 

animal zen

NEW YEAR POPLINGS 1

baby breezes play
half-hearted
in the bare black trees

&
it doesnt matter
if theres a squirrel

or not


~

the elephant call
of the dustman truck
&
my hellacious knee

ennui / dread / doom scroll

new year

like your belt missed a loop

FROM A CEMETERY BENCH

in the earth

this marsh-close clay

the dead lay

some not even bones now

tucked away

&

love broken

headstones have little to say

but

the fallen berries
tucked 
in
lacquered crevices

make a playful squirrels day


~

it comes back to this -

scratch
the blank
wide open

&
be as water
with the ink

bent & coping on the cemetery bench

every 
laughing
groundhog day

from smithsonianmag.com

HARD NEWS

once you seen them
chipmunks make squirrels

look
like
tree
rats

with a
cut-rate
high-street
hairdo

sorry

from wisegeek.org

EVERYTHING IS FINE

so i'm suffering
but doing it 
like a buddhist
so
thats
ok
and i'm not serious-ill
and
no one is angry with me
i
got
a
piping hot coffee
and a delicious cigarette
and words to tap tap down
and
a
job
to
got
to
thats not killing me too quick
but
not yet 
so i've time to finish this
from
the
comfy
morning chair