2010-06-29

podunk remembers

Appalachia
still uses Shakespeare's English
London has moved on

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figuratively, or not

Tony Hayward's gaffes 
 could fill an entire ocean 
 oh wait, he's done that



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2010-06-28

puppetmaster

Ashfaq Kayani 
formerly of ISI 
 still runs key assets

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context

Were we immortal 
 what would hold value for us? 
all is transience

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safely sequestered

Old Senator Byrd 
 interred with his darling Coal 
 may they rest in peace

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used clothes travel

Tee-shirt on Lamu 
"WOLVERINE TASTES LIKE CHICKEN"
 he reads no English

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urgent

hurdling the speed-bumps
the police cruiser sped past
fresh box of donuts

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2010-06-25

anhedral

when you're high-siding
to wind in you just relax
microscopically

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posturing

boyish ambitions:
be the coolest kid in town
buy the shiny truck

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drunk tank II

what hast Brego wrought?
Meduseld's door-bars faced out
to keep perils in

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form follows function

Rohan's architects
built Dunharrow for defense
Meduseld's for fun

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drunk tank

bars on the outside
won't defend Brego's mead-hall
they pen the drunks in

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blood lust

hot joy of battle
coursed through Theoden's old veins
Eorl's shining scion

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no exit

into the Huorn-wood
orcs fled before Erkenbrand
hammer smote anvil

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the Morgul king's mount
hideous chiropteroid
can't dodge an arrow

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noble end, noble beginning

on Theoden's grave
Eowyn was trothplighted
great circle of life

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retrieve

tear that glider down!
other are flying farther
it's not about you

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2010-06-23

weather: the theory

Thermals nucleate 
 in hexagonal close-pack -
from a windless plain

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too much

Cheap contraception 
 uncoupling sex from diapers 
may sink the Church yet

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hot springs, cold night

Catabatic flow 
 pouring off the Sierra 
 chills Mammoth at night

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killer instinct

A laser pointer 
 stimulates kittens to hunt -
bugs that aren't there

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audio cues

Diminuendo 
 means tighten your circles up 
 the lift's behind you

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the curse of vast mineral wealth

Louisianans 
can't control their government 
Big Oil paid for it

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startling

Hovering loudly 
 hummingbirds inspect my book 
 inches from my face

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fatty snacks

if you freeze it first 
 you could make deep-dried foie gras 
 as you would ice cream

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rites of passage II

The porcelain shrine 
 gained another worshipper 
 he turned twenty-one

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not science

So far, String Theory 
isn't falsifiable 
 it's more like a cult

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beyond bamboo

Better composites 
 of cellulose with lignin 
 may be the frontier

educational

raised in close quarters
team Plaskowitz learned manner
without formal school

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surf wise

Eighty-six years young 
doc Plaskowitz lives to surf 
 his God tells him to

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rites of passage

Swallow the terror 
 ask her if she'd like to dance 
 maybe she's shy too

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elemental

Primitive contests
 throw this tree. . .pick up that stone 
sort the Scotsmen out

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high in the Whites

Aspiring glaciers 
 doze through June in high canyons 
 dreaming of Winter

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coupled

two-axis aircraft
turn when we make roll inputs
the whole billow shifts

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weighty matters

to be more precise
force equals d-rho/d-t
but Newton still works

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higher functions

natural pilots
soar just fine without O2
others need to think

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priorities II

nurture connections
through the years of loves and deaths
bury your regrets

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priorities

a child's not like us
much of what we need can wait
he lives in the now

6/21/10

the dawn's first thermal
shaking trees in our campsite
turned out to be wind

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over-reach

Obama, amok
ordered al-Awlaki killed
without Due Process

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KISS

a rag and a rock
beat three amateur plumbers
to plug a hot tub

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2010-06-09

partition function

Robin Williams taught 
 God showed her sense of humor 
 rationing out blood

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2010-06-08

sure thing

only Death and Taxes
that's your only guarantee
sex is optional

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published

a box on my desk
a book with my name on it
who the hell wrote it?

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morning cup o' joe
kashewashewashewa
Barry sorely missed

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violent legacy

walking down the road
a pistol in his pocket
Clint Eastwood shot me!

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Glacier Point II

Drowning in sorrow
Nordic iciness abounds
fly home naivete

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Glacier Point

moisture conspires
waders Leidig required
now, pea-soup Funston

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Funston

fogbase rising up
300 feet of playground
can I stay below?

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land sculpters

white rivers of fog 
spill slowly down to the bay 
 glaciers of Marin

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another era

What drugs couldn't do 
 the passing years accomplished 
Dennis Hopper's gone

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extrajudicial

Presidents who can 
 kill enemies without trial 
 will kill critics, too

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prosaic

clunky liturgy 
 for an illiterate age 
 plays to children's souls

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OD

Twenty-one years old 
 a champion bull-sides 
 couldn't ride the horse

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big guns

people with smart-phones
 may be like sports-car owners
 they're compensating

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2010-06-04

mutual admiration society

Among novelists 
 reviewing each other's works 
 candor would be rude

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2010-06-03

quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Massey and BP 
 grew fat in the Cheney years 
 unregulated

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tools change us

Aristotle griped 
reading destroys memory 
he'd hate the iPhone

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nurturance

The waitress scolds me 
 'you need something green with that!' 
 just like coming home

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un-principled

Powerful allies 
back Sudanese genocide 
 as long as oil flows

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bad mix

Guilt and shame and sex 
 the same nasty casserole 
each generation

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just hold your nose..

Even for monsters 
 vigorous advocacy 
 is a lawyer's job

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lost in translation

Perfect translations 
preserve ambiguity 
 or would if they could

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2010-06-02

soft white

Everything's covered 
 in a film of silica 
 zippers dread this place

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buy low, sell high

Ride your launch thermal 
 as high as she wants to go 
 love the lift you're in

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growing bigger, not up

Now the kids squabble 
 over who got more coffee 
 dynamics don't change

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dark ambition

Like Milton's Satan 
 Dick Cheney made his own hell 
 in which he might rule

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Sierra shakhrit II

 Humphries, Basin, Tom 
 each don tallesin of snow 
 to greet the sunrise

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Sierra shakhrit

Humphries, Basin, Tom 
 each in new mantles of snow 
 to greet the sunrise

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shredding

The noise of snoring 
 tears the fabric of the night 
 into worthless scraps

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ambiguity is fun

Riding hang gliders
 sounds sexier in German 
 they might be dragons

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Exult

Homoerotic 
 tension and the fear of death 
 drive Joe Quirk's novel

launch prep

Gnawing at this shrub 
 with these puny hand clippers 
 Sisyphean task

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Memorial Day II

Errant scraps of snow 
 clinging to the launch at Walt's 
mock  the calendar

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listen to the wind

Aeolian harps 
 sing when vortices peel off 
lee-side of their strings

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lennies

Gazing up the range 
 space-ships hover at Big Pine 
 I'll try the valley

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Memorial Day

inglorious day 
 Lionel logged our longest flight 
 not quite Manzanar

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basic needs

Stuck on a snowfield 
you can still run out of ice 
 if you're hypoxic

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