boots on the ground

Jihadist Networks 
 don't run to feed flood victims 
 they're already there

on the loose

Defying the law
Kenya left al-Bashir free 
 the killings won't end

presto II

Effective haiku 

 conjure up an entire world

 in just a few words

presto

Effective haiku 
 conjure scents and moods and worlds 
 in just a few words

susurrus

A raven's wingbeats 
 throb across the morning sky 
 the rest is silence

whump whump whump

One raven's wingbeats 
 shatter the peaceful morning 
 blinding hangover

meddling

As we're pulling out  
Iraq's civil war heats up 
 we feign innocence

let them eat cake

Repressive regimes 
 try to feign suprise and hurt 
 when the lid blows off

revolving door

Timothy Geithner 
 makes sure that bankers stay rich 
 devil take the rest

when there is no wind
rustling in the garden plot
indicates vermin

so blue

After Katrina 
 musicians in New Orleans 
 sang a bluer blues

evil

Cheney's a problem 
 to speak no ill of the dead 
I must speak out now

fire on the mountain
 the devil take the hind-most
Diablo's ablaze

circle of life IV

  

We're born into debt 
 as someone changed our diapers 
 we nurture others

eh?

Counting syllables 
 seems arbitrary in French 
 everything's haiku

attitude

Learn to carry on 
 premonitions of one's death 
 will be wrong . . Most days

the shape of a man

Seventeen summers 
 draped muscle on the lad's frame 
 wisdom comes later

dark ambition

Hewlett/Packard's worth 
 fell by half on Carli's watch 
 we can't afford her

wimpy

How much is enough? 
 six TeV Collisions 
 haven't made a WIMP

passages

Until it happens 
 one more awkward ex-girlfriend 
 is just a fun date

claims

BP's Serious!
 to administer cash claims 
 they've brought in Feinberg

pricetag

Unless they're orphans 
 multiple mothers-in-law 
 nix polygamy

where the rubber meets the road

Traction's limiting 
 when your tires have lost purchase 
 gearing can't save you

but I digress...

Homer's similes 
 packed a civilization 
 into a war tale

inequity

In America 
black male incarceration 
shapes society

Occam

Good explanations 
 must be simple as can be 
 not one whit simpler

traffic

Lhasa's new highway 
 brings tourists in from Beijing 
 as fast as yaks fly

sweet!

another morning
the ants start their pilgrimage
towards Ryan's coffee

track record

through three bankruptcies
Dubya never budgeted
then, he launched two wars

brevity

novelists stretch it
if they wrote just what they know
they'd stick to haiku

heroic genre

Roy Chapman Andrews
inspired Lucas to create
Indiana Jones

unreliable

the older we get
the better we used to be
as we reminisce

circle of life II

Armies of rodents 
 decaying in my garden 
 give nutrients back

Biogenic

 As compost decays 
 smells of death and smells of life 
 volatile amines

the mind of the Creator

Haldane imputed 
"an inordinate fondness 
 for beetles" to God

bad lawyer

Any good lawyer 
 knows the "Youngstown" precedent 
 John Yoo blew the brief

uplifting

Auspicious forecast 
 we should got airborne and soar! 
"chance of thunderstorms''

firstborn

 old russian proverb 
 when you are making Blini 
 first one always sticks

Washoe cowboys

Crotchety Old Farts 
 treat slide like their private site 
"all hat, no cattle''

what matters

To assess learning 
 cognitive psychologists 
 ask where you've found food

tableau

One week past the new 
 scorpio nibbles the moon 
 like a dinner mint

special forces

larcenous vermin
scaling my new garden fence
make tempting targets

unusual suspects

could it be fungus?
 something with a cellulase
 ate my kitchen sponge

power

hanging from the prop
keeps one away from the dirt
but it's not flying

vantage

Each time we alight 
 our worlds collapse to 2D 
until the next flight

retirement

Joshua Slocum 
 found the life of leisure chafed 
 travel seemed more fun

learning calculus

Risks don't register 
inside the teenager's mind 
 he isn't mortal

economic indicators

It's not just fashion 
 unemployment among teens 
means their jeans get patched

constraints

Each time we alight 
 our worlds collapse to 2D 
 until the next flight

Non sequitur

 Hassan Nasrallah 
 killed his rival in Beirut 
 so he blames the Jews

epiphenomena

Once past breeding age
 hips wear out and eyes grow dim 
Darwin doesn't care

sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Soaring redtailed hawks 
execute a pas de deux 
 guarding my garden

PATRIOT state

forget courts of law
NSLs empower cops
to abridge your Rights

what does winning look like?

dehumanizing
our own sons to make soldiers
both sides lose each war

Las Vegas, today!

potable water
that might have saved many lives
squandered on golf greens

How are the mighty fallen!

Yellowjackets Scrounge
where once they ate dinosaurs 
 they scavenge hotdogs

quo bono?

Cheney bought up land
when Wyoming was arid
then worked to change that

imagine that!

Werner Heisenberg 
 went where the equations led 
 he drew no pictures

half a conversation

If you won't listen 
to any answer i give 
spare me the question

nothing new under the sun

'oldest profession' 
antedates humanity 
 Monkeys know what counts

investing II

Investing herring 

Orca fish for bigger game

 Seagulls are crunchy

investing

Investing herring 
captive Orca Turn profits 
 Seagulls are crunchy

never mind the average..

One big dustdevil 
 Dumped joe's hay-crop on jim's field 
Tax it as 'windfall'

hubris

Cardiologists 
reanimate Dick Cheney 
playing Frankenstein

Daedalus

Archival footage 
from the dawn of hanggliding 
evokes ancient dreams

HaMavdil III

recapitulate 
all of creation each dawn 
 doff Night like a cloak

ethically challenged

Congressman Rangel 
feathered his nest lavishly 
taxes are for chumps

How are the mighty fallen!

Yellowjackets Scrounge
where once they ate dinosaurs 
 they scavenge hotdogs

un-normalized

Lacking perspective 
who can deem a life "normal"
seen from the inside?

orientation

From a career path 
love can seem the distraction 
keep your perspective

strutting turkey

Kim Jong-Il's tantrum 
promising a ''sacred war'' 
may not be all bluff

S/N III

In the sky at noon 
there are just as many stars 
for those who can see

industrial farming

The third-world farmer 
can't compete with subsidies 
reaped by ADM

reductionist

Ernest Rutherford 
dismissed almost all science 
as "stamp collecting"

last thoughts

Einstein offered Bohr 
a perplexing conundrum 
called "a box of light"

roller coaster

Reliving moon-rise 
 Every time I crest a hill 
 I howl inwardly

heMavdil II

Every new sunrise 
 Evokes all of creation 
 Cleaving light from dark

haMavdil

Recapitulate 
 all of creation each dawn 
 Dark rolls off Earth's face

a politician's candor

Jonathan Edwards 
 Spoke truths about wealth and class 
and lies about sex

Tick Tock

Fly a million hours 
 Back and forth at fort Funston 
 You're Growing Sleeepy. . .