ebb and flow

welcome the forest 
 evacuating Detroit 
 would save a fortune

vigilant

glinting Dragonflies 
 guard me from mosquitoes bites
 in my Spring garden

incentive structure

the hand of Darwin
shows each time an infant smiles
 wanting to be fed

solipsists

fat Wall Street bankers
suckling at the public teat
claim they make the milk

externalities

To offer cheap shrimp 
 you must degrade the oceans 
 cheap foods have high costs

auspicious

Streaking through the night 
 the meteor lit the sky 
 without a stitch on

property

chief Seattle taught 
 the Earth can't belong to us 
 we belong to Her

Controlled Flight Into Terrain

you don't need to see!
you know just where you're going
straight down the damned hill!

cute

Bright-eyed spotted fawn 
as big as a jack rabbit 
 bounds through the tall grass

corporate bias

U.S. media 
demonize Hugo Chavez 
 but lick Cheney's boots

the incentives are the system

as long as doctors
"get paid to stick in more tubes"
our system's broken

special interests

working with Wall Street
industrial war mongers
elected Dubya

Eyjafjallajokull

England's not amused
by Iceland's repayment plan
then want cash, not ash

malign intent

mere benign neglect
can't crash our economy
it takes a pillage

seduction

the Marlborough Man
dug a lot of early graves
but he never coughed

attitude

unlike scientists
engineers need to be right
despite the data

forethought

fifty years of silt
is making a grand meadow
out of lake Nasser

foundations

An ego structure 
 founded on public acclaim 
 won't survive aging

grounded

Iceland's volcano 
 shut down Europe's air traffic 
 boom time for railroads

special interests

Working with Wall Street 
 industrial war mongers 
 elected Dubya

sweat and tears

 water's slippery
we pump sodium instead
 the rest is passive

unprincipled

Rahm Emanuel 
 discards legitimacy 
 to get his results

'round and 'round

 This dance of Shiva 
 unites destruction with sex 
 until one gets off

new massacre

"Poles killed at Katyn!"
this time, no one quashed the news
but they're just as dead

local order

Like Maxwell's Demon 
 evaporative cooking 
 winnows hot from cold

Despite our neat charts 
horizontal gene transfer 
 ignores species lines

tense

Anchored stem and stern 
 the hull rides upright, listless 
 waiting for the storm

What's Bruce Wayne's interest 
in his young ward Dick Grayson?
it's ambiguous

powder

Cresting at my knee 
 the bow-wave of flying snow 
 obscures my bindings

the infinite

they know their limits
confronting Stupidity
the gods are helpless

transcend this

serene, unblemished
lotus blooms rise from the muck
metaphor for soul

disenchantment

Reach across the aisle 
take your own base for granted 
 this is also change

I propose a toast 
 to our dear wives and girlfriends 
may they never meet

ghost fleet keeps killing

As the fleet decays 
 twenty tons of lead-based paint 
sloughs off in the bay

self-defeating

Rahm doesn't get it 
covering up Dubya's crimes 
 undermines Barack

...see that these Laws be faithfully executed...

Which will Barack choose: 
 covering up Dubya's crimes 
 or doing his job?

April Fool

fatties fill the sky
from Diablo to mount Tam
cloudbase at 5k

Reagan's America

  

living on credit

 all wealth belongs to the few

 hand-to-mouth nation

24

Fox television 
 badgered the viewing public 
to accept torture

let 'em go

I freely confess 
 president Lincoln was wrong 
 the South should be freed

4/1/10

Squeaky fresh powder 
 buries sierra cement 
 who's the April fool?

vernal, autumnal...

Past the equinox 
 the first full moon marks Pesach 
anywhere on earth

relentless

Powder keeps falling 
 filling in each track we cut 
even as we ski