striptease

We stare up towards launch
as mountains flirt behind veils
unrequited lust

apt moment

ten million Winters
raging against this rock face
bared this soft fossil

soaring confection

Endlessly circling
fruitcakes ride social currents
nothing preys on them

Mammoth Springs 5/27/08

Hailstones strike my scalp
somehow they don't perturb me
sunk in this hot-tub

Memorial frustration '08

Sierra strip-tease
mountains flirt between the clouds
Pilots' blue balls ache

a glimpse in time

A million winters
raging against this rock face
dug fragile fossils

strip-tease

Seven storms, like veils
offer glimpses of the peaks
pilots ache with lust

A disturbance in the Force

waves of deep relief
like I'm sucking oxygen
has dick Cheney died?

Memorial weekend '08

Massive Convection
keeps us grounded, watching storms
frustrating weekend

5/27/08 clouds on clouds

New snow on the whites
pileus cap the cu-Nimbs
should have brought our skis

5/26/08

Clouds obscure Paiute
hailstones scour the sierras
Flynn's is blowing down

5/25/08

Low clouds and drizzle
no better than yesterday
we seem not to learn

large pattern

Big LO on Vegas
brings the monsoon from the gulf
storms shroud the Inyos

incitement

Hillary implied
Obama could get rubbed out
how would she know that?

retribution

Snow storms in late May
low clouds darken the valley
who Pissed off Wanda?

maybe tomorrow

Storms in the Inyos
clouds hang low in the valley
stash the oxygen

quo bono?

For folks who fear food
skinless, boneless chicken breast
tastes much like Tofu

high winds, low clouds

Snow closed Tioga
Black's peak pierces the cloud-deck
it's not quite summer

white noise

Wind gusts slam my tent
drowning out Scott's snoring din
temporary peace

October surprise

Beating the war-drum
Dick peddles new distractions
this time it's Iran

frontal encounter

Cold air-mass arrives
sweeping out a scorching week
unstable as stink

Fission cuisine

pasta lacked red sauce
and Kimchee had no chilies
before Columbus

low standards

Abuse so blatant
applied in Guantanamo
our F.B.I. balked

inappropriate technology

Weed-wacker's green spray
urushiol aerosol
flays skin from the flesh

the harrier

launches like a Dream
climbs like a homesick angel
glides like an anvil

half-chastened

Lessons from Iraq
make McCain shy in Burma
but not in Iraq

fog

Summer's long moist tongue
the marine layer invades
wine-scented valleys

5/1/0/08

Cold beers by the lake
after three hours thermalling
Hull tastes like Summer

off-line

She's forever young
living in our memories
beating time and death

Barack didn't say

I'll pay your debt down
please sit down and let me run
you just be quiet

Swims with Anchor

Chained to Bush's wars
McCain persists to campaign
modern Sisyphus

no chase-scene, no explosion

Mamet draws a tale
of the Bagavad Gita
he calls it "Red Belt"

aging

Inner retriever
transcend your biology
Woof! Woof! Wanna play?

Mumbai odds

fourteen killed each day
fourteen million commuters
one in a million

stringent

Fourteen killed each day
just boarding the Mumbai trains
keep commuters sharp

Pro-unity? Anti-competitive?

Obama offers
he'll help her retire her debt
if she'll just retire

congestion

Sanitorium: Smog chokes the valleys
as particulates clog lungs
still, Dunlap convects

5/11/08

Sunday's much better
despite smoke in the valley
rocket to eight k

deceptive

It's a flagrant lie
"Kraft processed cheese food product"
the cheese won't eat it

iron lid

The pearly grey sky
speaks of convection thwarted
lift stops near launch height

vast right-wing conspiracy

mid-May at Dunlap
I can't even reach five grand
I blame Dick Cheney

wasted effort

Red-tail overhead
watches the tom turkey strut
the hens ignore him

braising

Slowly braised sous-vide
time works magic on tough cuts
tender as a kiss

Time lag

Alabama hills
kick off no morning thermals
but they rip all night

time-delay

The news registers
tension writhes across her face
her frozen smile lags

sterile

Neutrino hot tub
zipping through without a touch
high energy wash

freeflight

Orville came so close
distracted by the power
he forgot to soar

warm embrace

O noble hot-tub
buoyed in your limpid depths
my body giggles

Recruitment

seduce our teen boys
with images of glory
give them uniforms

experiencing lunch

Dim-sum with mushrooms
the pot-stickers wink at me
duck tongues taste like me

interface

Eilu v'eilu
divrei elohim chaim
each has half a truth

Uni

sweet Echinoderm
whose roe perfects linguine
Neptune's rock-candy

O-Furo

Limpid steaming tub
buoying my sagging flesh,
restoring my soul

lawless

Shrugging off the law
Dubya is become Shiva
crushing lives like bugs

Ich und Du

No man's an island
It's the friction that makes fire
alone, we each freeze

It's the friction that makes fire

Martin Buber wrote :
'all real living is meeting'
alone, we exist