compressible?

my vario howls
the hand of god leans on me
where does the air go?

it's the law

my vario howls
the hand of god swats me down
like a mere insect

May '82

treading the world's edge
clouds fill all space to the south
northwards, the day shines

selective advantage

faced with a capped beer
primates show off their talents
everything's a tool

sawgrass

this week's hard lesson
from corneal contusions:
it's good to be numb

terse

grave understatement
"Houston, we have a problem"
summed up the mission

Watchmen

the Watchmen trailer
never mentions Alan Moore
Why's he sulking now?

cleaner vices

a filthy habit
tainting pot with tobacco
the Dutch have banned it

out-classed

the Saudi monarch
summons us to work towards peace
George screams "bring 'em on!"

service fees

Telecom assholes
spy on us without warrants
and charge us for it

miffed?

the Watchmen trailer

never mentions Alan Moore

Why's he sulking now?

gaming the market II

First, Savings and&Loans

this time 'round it's Fannie Mae

new Bush, new bail-out

repairing an atmosphere

People spin pipe-dreams

seqestering CO2

but peat is proven

Hunter S. Thompson

never let mere facts

interfere with his mission

telling a big truth

too close to see

Sibling religions

blind to their shared heritage

fight for their dad's love

crackpot

Cheney's bold world plan

try torturing more Muslims

teach them to love us

gaming the market

first Savings&Loans
this time 'round it's Fannie Mae
one more Bush bail-out

even-handed

Ashcroft plays it fair
waterboarding or singing
torture is race-blind

the Great Pumpkin

smoke-tinted moonrise
looms above the eastern hills
dwarfing our streetlamps

irrigation

Rivers of tail-lights

flowing nowhere at a crawl

bathe suburbia

close quarters

Fourteen day road-trip

more driving time than air-time

whose iPod this year?

sales

McCain's press rapport

can't disguise what lurks beneath

lipstick on a pig

focus

Cod tonight? Or beef?

that depends on the pairing

whatcha got on tap?

pent

a troop of turkeys
pens me up in my own home
like an Iraqi

marginal II

milking each bug-fart
for small gains and net losses
I launched too early

marginal

puffies over slide

but the signals are still mixed

haze sits on Washoe

side-effects

too much vicodin
blunts pain but exacts a cost
oatmeal fills the skull

penitant

for Cheney's blessing
McCain keeps walking barefoot
far, far Right past Rome

virtually clear

Stupid GPS
shows neither traffic nor deer
can I drive through them?

all is metaphor

the King David tales
present "god" as metaphor
for hot make-up sex

smoke and miasmas

back-lit at sunrise
Diablo should fill my view
but I just see smoke

cut off

like a surgeon's field
we're set apart from the world
the smoke drapes us in

expectations

Ah, Summer it's here
the heat was unusual
freezing now--normal

humility

Man's place in nature
from the mosquito's viewpoint:
Delicatessen

the anvil of the sun

sultry desert heat
flanked by t-heads and granite
Utah summer-time

correlation? causality?

torrential downpour
the best forecasting tool is
Wimbledon fortnight

snobs

three baby fox cubs
think our yard is a playground
the cats ain't amused

plus ca change...

Roman socialites
capped their friends' Homeric quotes
we send pithy verse

extinction

foot and mouth disease
decimated the ku-beasties
terminal murrain

not too bright

Tracking the sun's arc
sunflowers swing east then west
like blonde tennis fans

Sacramento Summer

West of the mountains
heat piles up in the valley
like storm-blown flotsam

108F

the sky's an iron lid
clamped on the central valley
keeping in the heat

slice-of-life

Random transmissions
excerpts from conversations
editing is art

state of the state

Arnold's not so tough
when our state could use it most
he can't make water

dissonance

Hell-tinted embers
feed the dutch oven's process
odors of heaven

Great year at hat creek
although none of up got high
all the meals are Phat

Dough-boy

only Coleridge
wrote poems on opiates
that aren't silly

beyond petroleum

Hmm, they dig great holes
maybe we should train groundhogs
to erect fence-posts

Ender's game

Ignoring the road
she drives by the GPS
her passengers cringe

therapeutic dream

To loosen his phlegm
hang Scott like a pinata
whack 'til the beers spill

unfinished

Hurried into print
Kurlansky didn't write "Salt"
he published the notes

outrunning the storm

Atop Tekoa
we make camp in howling wind
but the stars shine clear

tekoa

Stark upon the plain
the gravel ridge stands alone
terminal morraine?

bear crossing I

Defying headlamps
a scrap of night galumphs by
a black bear cheats death

Bear crossing II

Defeating headlights
a piece of the night itself
runs across our lane

bear crossing II

Blackness incarnate
a bear's dark fur in the night
defeats our headlights

bear crossing IV

Crossing our truck's path
as black as the night itself
a bear cub risks death

hacking

Something's crawling out
from lung-bottom sediments
a smoker's nightmare

smoke

Turning west Thursday
smoke truncates the horizon
half the state's on fire

high pressure

Back in Washington
the whole state is blowing east
hot as a furnace

hilarity

Summer safari
six pilots packed in one truck
straight out of Disney

chasing wind

Crossing Idaho
the gust-front overtook us
trees creak and streets flood

Eclipsed by Golden
Wasa's greeted with a yawn
on it's own, it's grand

parasites

Blood-sucking vermin
draw nourishment from tourists
only some have wings

mosquitoes

Blind with their blood-just
constrained between tent and fly
they're easily killed

preemption

Between tent and fly
hungry mosquitoes gather
I preempt their strikes

grounded

Despite the forecast
Tuesday's dawn brings stormless skies
It's my turn to drive