2008-05-29

striptease

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

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apt moment

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

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soaring confection

Endlessly circling
fruitcakes ride social currents
nothing preys on them

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2008-05-27

Mammoth Springs 5/27/08

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

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Memorial frustration '08

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

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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

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A disturbance in the Force

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

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Memorial weekend '08

Massive Convection
keeps us grounded, watching storms
frustrating weekend

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5/27/08 clouds on clouds

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

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2008-05-26

5/26/08

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

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2008-05-25

5/25/08

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

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large pattern

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

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2008-05-24

incitement

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

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retribution

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

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maybe tomorrow

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

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quo bono?

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

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high winds, low clouds

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

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white noise

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

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2008-05-21

October surprise

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

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frontal encounter

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

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Fission cuisine

pasta lacked red sauce
and Kimchee had no chilies
before Columbus

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low standards

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

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2008-05-20

inappropriate technology

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

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2008-05-19

the harrier

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

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half-chastened

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

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2008-05-18

fog

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

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5/1/0/08

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

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2008-05-17

off-line

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

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Barack didn't say

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

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2008-05-16

Swims with Anchor

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

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no chase-scene, no explosion

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

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2008-05-15

aging

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

2008-05-13

Mumbai odds

fourteen killed each day
fourteen million commuters
one in a million

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stringent

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

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Pro-unity? Anti-competitive?

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

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2008-05-12

congestion

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

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2008-05-11

5/11/08

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

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deceptive

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

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iron lid

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

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2008-05-10

vast right-wing conspiracy

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

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2008-05-08

wasted effort

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

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2008-05-07

braising

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

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Time lag

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

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2008-05-06

time-delay

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

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2008-05-04

sterile

Neutrino hot tub
zipping through without a touch
high energy wash

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freeflight

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

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2008-05-02

warm embrace

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

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Recruitment

seduce our teen boys
with images of glory
give them uniforms

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experiencing lunch

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

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interface

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

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2008-05-01

Uni

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

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O-Furo

Limpid steaming tub
buoying my sagging flesh,
restoring my soul

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lawless

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

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Ich und Du

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

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It's the friction that makes fire

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

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