2009-05-31

Rot III

Black asphalt hyphae 
 infiltrate forests and farms 
suburbs rot the globe

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Rot II

mycologists know 
 the spread of suburbia 
 smacks of corruption

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Rot

Black asphalt hyphae 
 rotting everything they touch 
 to suburbia

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2009-05-28

first, ya gotta get their attention

Profligately lit 
Oakland's Mormon temple shines 
 like a weird theme-park

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2009-05-27

holiday traffic

past the Altamont
traffic starts to move again
we may get there yet

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one for the archaeologists

shells strew the desert
mixed molluscs and munitions
funny groups camp here

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sense of urgency IV

looking back, southwards
a storm obscures the launch road
got to fly faster

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is this a test?

year by year I face
more arcane technology
just to brew coffee

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bobbleheads

launching new pilots
off Walt's Point mid-day in June
just seems negligent

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early launch

down below seven
I scratched for all I was worth
before zipping in

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scoring function

ten thousand theories
jostle in Kurtis' brain
most of them are wrong

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sense of urgency III

two cups of coffee
with a breakfast of berries
dig that latrine quick

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arriving high

Black's not very tall
scarcely a mountain at all
more like a blackhead

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prudence

Scott had an idea
he'll fix out transfill on launch
channelling Kurtis

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fair-trade coffee

eager for coffee
I gave James a cold lizard
in trade for my stove

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decisions

disdaining to cross
despite the westerly winds
Scott taunted Goodale

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Arrakis

Gurney was non-plussed
mood matters for love-making
you fight when you must

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early crossing

leaving at Kearsarge
I grovelled up Mazourka
and jumped the Westgard

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extrapolation

Lord, I beseech thee
spare me from drivers who think
they know where I am

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C-130

something with four props
passed just a bit below me
just about Kearsarge

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finger-tight

found in the spent ground
parts of Kurtis' French Press
like emeralds in shit

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zone shift

Don't have a cow, man 
 we're not too late to launch yet 
 you're on central time

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cold lizard II

'til the sun warms him 
 his blood refuses to flow 
 unless there's coffee

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cold lizard

until his blood warms 
 he basks on my exposed flesh 
 dreaming lizard dreams

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May scenery

Tattered rags of snow 
snagged on the Sierra's crags 
 unravel in sun

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dream-stuck

Inconvenient bone 
diverting half my blood's flow 
 trapping me in bed

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louts

Glass shards on the beach 
 as if no one else walks here 
 what kind of moron?

move into the light...

The first glint of sun 
 in my dark eternity 
 lights up White Mountain

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passage

Coins on his eye-lids 
pay the fare across the Styx 
 they don't take plastic

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long day's work

Stiff after long flights 
 feeling half as old as god 
 needing a hot tub

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oxygen

Sounds like you got high 
 but you aren't making sense 
 breath through your nose, dude

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treachery

Won't the howling end? 
how can there be so much sink 
 under such cute clouds?

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sense of urgency II

Hail lashes the Wall 
shortly after I passed it 
 I'll try the valley

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one less option

As I left Kearsarge 
 Mazourka was wrapped in storm 
 guess I won't go there

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sensai of the day

Leaving the mountains 
I need a whole new mind-set 
what would Ian do?

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napoleonic

In such company 
Black resents being so short 
 that's what makes it mean

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hypertension

Leaving the hot tub 
feeling like i'm down a quart 
 whoa, here comes the floor

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a sense of urgency

The storm pursues us 
 as an ox licks up the grass 
 it engulfs mountains

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2009-05-20

camouflage

lurking in shadows
 owls defeat my camera
 as if I were prey

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the appearance of warmth

Wind sweeps the Castro
 robbing the sun of its warmth 
even in Summer

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transference

Sculpting car bodies 
 to evoke a woman's curves 
 "auto-erotic"

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maladaptive compulsion

hobbling on thrashed knees 
 runners still can't satisfy 
 their compulsive need

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make no mistake

Standing united 
 we protest murderous cops
I am Oscar Grant

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abate this

like standing dead grass
an intimate air/fuel mix
 will burn most fiercely

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2009-05-18

the Village

All the same pundits 
 who called clinton a shoe-in 
 dismiss torture probes

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McCrystal

the truth's just a tool 
 to be used or discarded 
 like Pat Tilman's life

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No drama

 excessive mercy 
 mars the change we voted for 
 where's the catharsis?

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newton, MA

Naked, on the lawn 
 they're planted tomato vines 
 have they no deer here?

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newton, MA

Gray here, and humid 
 houses of load-bearing brick 
 untroubled by quakes

the familiar

The green smells of Spring 
 prompt a flood of memories 
as if this were home

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priorities

Dick-headed driver 
 seems baffled at my outrage 
 he's in my crosswalk

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back east

Flinty-eyed yankees 
 don't disguise their suspicion 
 of this outlander

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it's not the heat...

Sun breaks through at noon 
 at once my clothes stick to me 
 summer has arrived

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The new BS

 malleable youth 
can be shaped for good or ill 
why give them jack-boots?

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warm front

One stray ray of sun 
 pierces the sky's murky dome 
 then gray floods back in

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shower

Sluicing off my sweat 
 futile effort to remove 
water with water

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excision

To heal our nation 
 we must cut the cancer out 
 Cheney still festers

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logorrhea

The barrage of words 
 masks the absence of ideas 
 until you tune in

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in the tower

Free-loading pundits 
funding no journalism 
 may kill the papers

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stuck

Slack-jawed, unmoving 
 dull eyes fixed on the tv 
 his mind is static

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embedded message

Didactic displays 
 reuse museums' old stuff 
 to convey ideas

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backwards

Watching his hairline 
 regretting his fleeing youth 
 neglecting the now

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California's shame

Unlike proper pipes 
 crude irrigation ditches 
 waste half our water

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heuristics

Giving the answer 
 before they're found the question 
 pure futility

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fishing

Unborn potential 
 as vast as Leviathan 
 lurks in our minds' depths

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lenses

Seeing genitals 
 everywhere his eye alights 
 hormones tint his world

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edge difinition

Without prejudice 
 from patterns of light and dark 
 robots can't see "things"

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snapshot

Slippery image 
 as ephemeral as thought 
 captured in haiku

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2009-05-14

nature morte

speed-reading haiku
 one loses all resonance
 like Proust in Cliff-notes

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fire abatement

stray scraps of barbed wire
twine around my weed-wacker
 and slash at my shins

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hypocrite

Fleeing the red mosque 
 can Shariah tolerate
 an Imam in drag?

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potentiate this

I hear and forget 
I see and I remember 
I do and I learn

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cancerous web

Tendrils of asphalt 
 infiltrating our woodlands 
 strangle all thats green

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irreconcilable

Treating their daughter 
 like a freaking china doll 
 his ex drives him nuts

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anti-trust

One point five trillion 
 may derail Intel's game-plan 
 for monopoly

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anthology

Fifty sad stories 
 all queued up for traffic court 
 looking for closure

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design spec

Darwin's got your back
 until you produce offspring
 past that, he cares less

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2009-05-11

don't fear the reaper

Dragonflies zig-zag 
mowing narrow swathes of sky 
reaping mosquitoes

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dynamic range

Dazzled by one star
we can't glimpse the depths of space
 until darkness falls

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StarTrek II

A dual heritage
 and rage long suppressed mark Spock 
 like our president

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StarTrek

What to make of Kirk? 
 If Spock stands for Obama 
 is he Joe Biden?

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We're not in Kansas

 you can't smoke out here! 
 they're refueling the let plane 
go inside to smoke

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mismatch

For very small prey 
owls' talons are as useless 
 as pitchforks for peas

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wretched excess II

vast oceans  of grass 
 suburbia's green backdrop 
 waste seas of water

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wretched excess

Close-cropped seas of grass 
 suburbia's green backdrop 
 waste seas of water

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...shall reap in joy

Dragonflies zig-zag 
 mowing the sky in tight strips 
 reaping mosquitoes

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tabula rasa

Several times each day 
 for want of a memory 
 he invents his world

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Not Weebles

 tethered by their skulls 
 to the earth's gravity field 
 big-headed kids fall

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2009-05-09

Hobbes V

where law's not enforced
the devil takes the hindmost
mercy has no place

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Hobbes IV

where law's not enforced
the devil takes the hindmost
ayn din/any chesed

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mobile-home

Not quite a garment 
 the burqua keeps her penned in 
 an annex of home

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it's a wrap

Lacking a waistline 
 any garment hangs on her 
 like a tarp on shrubs

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cut off

Never quite outdoors 
a woman in a burqua 
 lives in seclusion

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hello? hello?

no one really knows
 all language is metaphor
 and therefore suspect

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2009-05-08

at my window

tiny spotted fawns
sample their first solid foods
then race back to nurse

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2009-05-07

undergrowth

hairs on my tragus
rasp against my tympanum
every time I chew

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Caramba she's hot!

Mexican police 
are using IR cameras 
to nab those with flu

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bitter jest

Maybe this headache 
 is caused by a brain tumor 
 paranoid humor

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go with the flow

A day of high winds 
 biases potential flights 
 asymmetrically

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layers

"upward" means inwards 
 "god" signifies our best selves 
 all is metaphor

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home

Muslims in the States 
 feel less alienated 
 than those in Europe

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insouciant

Tiny spotted twins 
 chase a doe across my yard 
 prancing without care

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2009-05-05

rule of law

warrantless wiretaps
need to be prosecuted
 if we live by law

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arts' budget

how many poets
can give themselves to their muse
 while raising children?

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jealous muse

how many poets
find time to indulge their art
 while raising children?

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delicate timing

snug on their day-roosts
 owls ignore even squirrels
 scampering nearby

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purity

Lacking nutrients 
 the clear blue of poverty
sustains Tahoe's worth

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beyond dumb

Spying and torture 
 failings of intelligence 
 came to define Bush

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China Barn

George W. Bush 
 like a rock, only dumber 
 broke what he can't grasp

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2009-05-04

synchrony

wingtip to wingtip
crow flies as his own shadow
inches from the cliff

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2009-05-03

resourceful

Iceland's fisherfolk 
 protect their waters fiercely 
 bankers make good bait

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stopgap

 Temporarily 
 a deficit of caffeine 
 can be patched with sleep

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dynamic range

Night's aural background 
 peaks at a storm's thunderclap 
 lulls to a frog's croak

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frog chorus

The chorus of frogs 
 marks the tempo of the night 
 between rain showers

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campfollowers

At vision's limits 
 foxes fled from our flashlights 
 as they clean up camp

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rites of Spring

Summoned by spring's rains 
 salamanders rank on rank 
 converge on the pond

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new allies

Spring's little triumphs 
 two voracious great horned owls 
 have fledged from the nest

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flimsy firmament

Clouds flirt with the deck 
 leaving just a hundred yards 
 free for VFR

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quiet mind

Pattering raindrops 
 evoke nothing so much as 
 pattering raindrops

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boundary conditions

'til we understand 
 how a brain gives form to mind 
 we're bounded by death

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Watchmen III

"Watchmen" stumped critics 
 Allen Moore's meditation 
 on foresight's limits

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tutorial

Two downy owlets 
 gaze out through the morning mist 
 watching their mom hunt

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memory of smells/smells of memory

A Summer rain-storm 
 stirs up smells I'd forgotten 
 since I moved out West

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May '09

Rain drums on my tent 
 trails transform to muddy streams 
 funny sort of drought

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