flaming pufter

Gee-Dub 'stay-puft' Bush
flaming marshmallow chaos
across the mid-east

utilitarianism

Love is Darwin's mask
imbuing sex with meaning
only genes matter

dervish

Sing the rising sun
exalt in this world's beauty
dance the whirling stars

one more war

Too limp to protest
executive over-reach
draft senators first!

joyous constraints

composing Haiku
in seventeen syllables
you can't wax maudlin

touching the Other

Drug-induced insights
glimpses of a woman's mind
light the Saline night

Saline spring

Acid-lit flickers
glimpses of a woman's mind
seared into my brain

conversation piece

How'd you get that scar?
Tales of surprise and remorse
shape our character

overdose

Chasing new phantoms
George picks a fight with Iran
addicted to war

Playing 'god'

Spreading woe and death
he tramples iraq's peoples
George Bush as Shiva

Leviathan

Constrained by no law
claiming new powers at will
George Dubya reads Hobbes

fantasist

Constrained by no law
claiming new powers at will
It's super-Dubya!

in the long run, we are all dead

Cheney's world-vision
no less than a songbird's tune
all is transience

full-moon

Lighted from both sides
sun and moon frame our planet
flood-tide, no shadows

news from Iraq

Killed in a bad cause
following evil orders
buried in medals

Angry vegan

Not knowing her needs
she obsesses on diet
but neglects the flesh

No bargain

Curtail civil rights
to procur security
end up with neither

dubious

"she's a witch! Burn her!"
trust the wisdom of the mob
that's democracy

Sproul

Glider with crutches
an indelible image
Kurtis scares students

pallindromes

"MAPS" box by ski-lift;
if I turn it upside-down
does it dispense "SPAM"?

Mukasey's compromise

no "due process" rights
to forewarn our enemies
and justice for whom?

level playing field

Dove hunts will be sport
when hunters use their bare hands
or when doves shoot back

morning

Dawn bleaches the sky
my gaze focuses outward
and I'm born once more

fleeting

Fill every moment
lend a hand, say "I love you"
there's not that much time

paint it grey

All this world's beauty
fades to insignificance
viewed through depression

colonialist war

As if from the grave
he schools Dubya on Iraq
Zbigniew Brzinski

parking hazards

Like some grim disease
the Cushman prowls the curbside
striking down at whim

too much in the morning

Like a big sperm cell
laboring vaguely forwards
the floating corpse swims

occupiers

Unwilling to leave
we provoke countless attacks
our endless quagmire

Dawn horror:

Ancient, slow-moving
hairless save for ears and nose
the floating corpse swims

no service

My phone shows five bars
but still i can't place a call
what do i pay for?

I.P.

First-to-file at last
U.S. joins the modern world
dawn for e-notebooks

Red state women

submit like good sheep
cater to his every whim
because he loves ewe

stormy sunday

Surfing the storm-front
Ronald raced north from Walt's point
I followed in shade

raucous

I wake to silence
has she finally snuffed him?
I can't hear Scott's snores

Sunday flight

Fleeing the mountains
I valley-boat to big ears
darkness pursues me

engage

Insubstantial god
has no hands but those we lend
to make the world right

surrogate marker

The clouds just taunt us
no correlation to lift
no one understands

flailing

Golly, it looks Phat
flat-bottomed clouds mark the route
everyone sank out

unstable

White tufts of whipped cream
tower over distant peaks
scary sierras!

drizzle

A warm front arrives
gone are yesterday's blue skies
rain drums on my tent