hauntingly familiar

Ralph Nader returns
on money from the far-right.
Fetch an exorcist

behind the throne

Cheney's power-base
corporate oligarchy
won't go out gently

business as usual

Mukasey stonewalls
Pelosi covers his back
and still we torture

both

Food? Or sex this time?
in ambiguous haiku
I don't always know

context-sensitive

Fit for scarcity
Pima suffer on junk food
and meet early deaths

Gaia strikes

to save a planet
so heavily infested
wipe out the humans

Grass-roots revolution

legions of earthworms
turn the whole world inside-out
mouthful by mouthful

wrong issues

Less experienced
less "outsider" than McCain
why choose Hillary?

rootless

"Woo the minister!
and screw the congregation!"
top-down strategy

accountability

Seven years of Dick
showed how co-presidents work
Still want Hillary?

McCain's claims

Torture's staunchest foe
brags that he faced down George Bush
and still we torture

like, wow

Snow caps Diablo
highlighting rocks between chutes
like a real mountain

nostalgia

Sunshine on fresh snow
eclipsed by Berkeley's cold rain
for this I flew home?

faithless

Betrayed by all sides
Iraqi translators die
for daring to hope

betrayed

Too quick to trust us
Iraqi translators die
branded as traitors

out of bounds

Avalanche and cliff
pick off the reckless skiers
Darwin's long cold arms

sake with that?

lobster with foie gras
is merely the amuse-gueule
Vancouver loves food

backed up

Stuck in Vancouver
no slot in SFO's queue
rushing home for rain

private language filters

Kurtis weighs the odds:
"I'm absolutely certain!"
and sometimes he's right

Drunkard's walk:

Wind scours the glaciers
spindrift piles between the trees
absorbing boundary

baa

Immigration lines
wend endlessly back and forth
we're herded like sheep

Teeth

Every man's nightmare
the punch-line's too obvious
a shock film called 'teeth'

scale

Paint-thin atmosphere
clings to the planet's surface
the sky ain't so high

smear

Kenyan smear campaign:
"Odinga ate my baby!"
only plays in Oz

baptism

immersed in powder
I burst through my rooster-tail
reborn in sunlight

Tres Reyes?

Four magi's presents
gold, frankincense, myrrh, red-bull
it gives angels wings

wasatch convert

Weight back in my boots
ski through my own rooster-tail
baptized in the pow

Dreamscape

lofting rooster-tails
skis arc through last night's snow-fall
powder veils the sun

your lying eyes

Wave-cloud in my yard
Diablo reports no wind
whom ya gonna trust?

best use

big honking wave cloud
no signs point to convection
a fine day to ski

Monday

poor bitter wage-slaves
we shred only documents
while barry rips turns

tantalus

Poor suffering lifty
ganja dilates his work hours
while strangers have fun

angels on horseback

Bacon-wrapped oysters
each makes the other moister
flesh calls out to flesh

whee!

First board, then helmet
sillouetted on blue sky
munchkins air it out

en passant

Flitting thru the trees
haiku shouted to the wind
ephemeral art

dig here

When's powder too light?
unconsolidated snow
tree holes suck you in

making sport

Whole sole in contact
flat board no edge and no sound
racing the groomers

eating in

Savory aromas
meat married to garden herbs
evokes family bliss

tarnished hills

Green claims the hill-sides
erasing last summer's browns
grass spreads like fungus

PV=nRT

Subsiding, air warms.
high pressure blocks the thermals
crushing convection

Darwin rules

love is adaptive,
motivating nurturance
is that just too bleak?

Causus belli

No Iranians
attacked the world trade center
but Dick wants their oil

false flag

Bad persian accent
makes Dick Cheney's case for war
in his twisted dreams

causus belli

fabricating threats
Cheney cries "wolf" in Hormuz
one more Tonkin Gulf

hygiene hypothesis III

shielded from all dirt
you develop allergies
to punish your ma

hygiene hypothesis II

Kept away from dirt
kids develop allergies
and blame their mothers

hygiene hypothesis

A sterile childhood
spawns allergic responses
children need their dirt

purified

Sparks drench the people
gathered for the Fiesta
baptism by fire

precession

Tropic to tropic
the noon sun wanders the sky
canted spin axis

faraday failure

unshielded Flytec
it still beeps when I go up
or rub Scott's belly

letting off steam

Smoke-filled Zocolo
tequila-filled Pinatas
Berkeley does valle

January

Back from Mexico
in time to see the skies clear
inter-frontal Tam?

overbooked

Call for volunteers
It's not quite prostitution
just sell us your time

rage

James flew home last night
Iliana is distraught
what's the connection?

another drummer

Everyone agrees -
"Hell Island" is the "in" book
ZKent reads Kierkegaard

Tres Reyes

Repressed all year long
Latins let go noisily
when the church allows

gnar

Better fly XC
dragons lurk in the canyon
around Jeff's LZ

fireworks

Spewing streams of flame
the children darts through the crowd
is my hair on fire?

set-piece

Flames rain down on us
like the blessings of heaven
at the Fiesta

Fiesta

Scott prowls the fair-ground
grinning, ogling and swilling
beer-monkey follows

time to fly

Iliana frowns
finding us still at our books
why are you still here?

dissonance

God is on our side.
All wars are fratricidal.
Can one brain hold both?

bargain

opening bottles
on my wedding ring hurts bad
but it's worth the pain

right of way

What could the cause be
making traffic brake and swerve?
pigs crossing the road

stopped clocks

Roosters make bad pets
vying to be earliest
they crow through the night

slow food

Still stuck in this van
waiting for a roast chicken
what's wrong with tacos?

hypoglycemia

The whole world just sucks
the wind, the people, the works
Justine missed a meal

Boom!

It's never too late
to have a happy childhood
when you're in Valle

priorities

Valle is great fun
the forest is on fire
but the flying's good

lost and found

Later that evening
she returned my toothbrush
hers was in her bag