parade of fools

Iowa evolves 

Santorum out-polls Gingrich 

 there is no leader

pent

The walls of our fears 
 can't bear a sheltering roof 
 they just pen us in

Fraunhofer

red-shifted spectra

 tally elements present

 bar-codes on the stars

weepy

The Spielberg WarHorse 
 more music than theater 
 symphony on film

epic

Sing! Muse, of the wrath

 of Patrokles' boyfriend

 immortal, in death

arble bargle morble woosh!

he's slurring like Scott
at seventeen thousand feet
check his blood sugar

closing shot

the camera lingers
on the squirrel's cellphone hoard
as the truck drives off

by the clock

Iraq's renewed war
boringly predictable
Cassandra-fatigue

plowman

fertile destruction
disruptive technologies
Shiva keeps dancing

hysteria

Reason and Logic
instruments of oppression
towards Sandra Harding

tranquil vista

Winter inversion
buries San Jose in mists
Ed Levin's pretty!

gyroscopes

GravityProbe-B
exquisitely sensitive
worth every billion

new broom

rich men in Congress
don't represent the People
give them their pensions

consequences

a glut of lobsters
our reports in the Deep
say the cod is gone

diamond age II

the Stones' fiftieth

anniversay on tour

bring your grandparents

Diamond age

the Stones' fiftieth
anniversay on tour
bring the grandchildren

tempi

Dawkins proposes
"rapid gradualism"
to dispense with jerks

beam me up!

accessing the Cloud
uploaded on a thermal
nebulous image

uppity

Tower of Babel
made a name for its  builders
a thumb in God's eye

cripple work

a forest of steel

bear the Bay Bridge's east-span

temporarily

out of line

police-chief Stamper
repents using pepper-spray
on Seattle's youth

closing bell III

Putin's time is past 
 refreshing winds sweep Moscow 
 Gorbachev's spirit 

closing bell II

Gorbachev's spirit
sweeps like fresh air through Moscow
 Putin's time is past

he's back!

Mischa Gorbachev 
 most distinguished dissident 
 in a year of Change

closing bell

Vladimir Putin 
 didn't see the Arab Spring 
 meant his own time's up

Keller

Food pornography 
 oddly sterile Christmas gift 
 no one cooks like this

...endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights...

Holder's DoJ 

can alienate your Rights 

 You'll be disappeared

monstrous

Claiming the power 

to disappear citizens 

Holder runs amok

plowman

Fertile destruction 

 disruptive technologies 

 Shiva keeps dancing

ooh! shiny!

Newt has no deep thoughts
 a magpie for bright ideas
stacked haphazardly

a guide for the perplexed

Thought-experiments 
 guided Einstein on dark seas 
 stranger than Newton's

monsters from the Id

Jungian archetypes 

 lurk behind epic poems 

 and your bed curtains

Art

Talk about cooking 

 dance about architecture 

all is vanity

apex predator III

Holiday season 

 fattens the French on foie gras 

for the trolls' table

apex predator II

Holiday season 

 fattens the French on foie gras 

Great Circle of Life

apex predator

Holiday season 
 fattens the French on foie gras 
 for gourmand ogres

type-cast?

Repeating motif 
Fassbender's big year in film 
 all comes back to sex

Christmas Carol

Putin's time is past 
 refreshing winds sweep Moscow 
 Gorbachev's spirit

afflicting the comfortable

Message of Christmas: 
 Gorbachev speaks in Moscow 
Putin's time is past

indefinite

Defunct republic 
military detention 
 voids your civil rights

narcissist

Newt guards his freedom 
 a parade of mistresses 
 take the place of friends

looking down

Perverse real estate 
 rewards the ethically blind 
 with the grandest views

fading

digital era
silver-based photography
extinct medium

monochrome

False economy 
 Sodium yellow street lamps 
 All cars look the same

party season

Winter in Norway 
 trolls contest the right-of-way 
 on the Bridge through Night

vapid

Have something to say? 
or do you just feel that you 
 have to say something?

mostly empty

Particle? Or wave? 

 a fly in a cathedral 

 leaves room to ponder

heroic fiction

Official story: 

 Kim Il Song destroyed Japan 

 single-handedly

moral midget

Kim Jong Il's stature 

 puffed up by his pangyrists 

hovers at five feet

never mind the moths

Keasling's E. Coli 
 makes their own cellulases 
 he could lose his shirt

never mind

Disinhibited 

 a mantis without his head 

gets down to business

nacht reise

At each dream-crossing 
 Trolls contest the right-of-way 
 on your night journey

grudging

Bleary orange sun 
 pries back dawn's gummy eyelid 
 Winter morning fog

noise

Sex can't fill the void 
 where relationships should be 
 the raves get lonely

Amish scandal

Scandalous Mullets 

 facing criminal charges 

 haircuts gone too far

due

Al-Assad's rearguard 

 united only by fear 

 can't hold back the tide

a dog's death

Colonel Kadhafi 
 earned his death at the mob's hands 
 many times over

host's prerogative

last sliver of moon
 too scant to serve to a guest
 gobbled for breakfast

prurient

Defining issue 
 of Rick Santorum's campaign: 
 bestiality

big shot

Ten thousand dollars 

 pocket-change for Mitt Romney 

 he's so out of touch

lawyerly

Corzine testifies 

 he cannot recall a crime 

 sounding like Nixon

notorious

paparazzi haunt
Eddie Long's sabbatical
lift his luggage?

ethically challenged

Influence peddler 
 the ultimate insider 
Speaker of the House

words mean what I want them to mean

Influence peddler 
 denies he's a lobbyist 
 Speaker of the House

amphibious

Newt has repented

 sloughing his sins like old gills

 metamorphosis

a rose is a rose is a rose...

once called "Blackwater"

 mercenaries zig and zag

 now "ACADEMI"

clarity

For Clarence Thomas 
 doubt never enters his mind 
 that door's firmly shut

for better or for worse

Newlyweds have: love 

 fifteenth anniversary: 

 big metal chicken

lease-only

Gingrich gets around 
first two wives got sick of him 
the third's not sick. . .yet

large-minded

House Speaker Gingrich 

 believes everything he says 

 temporarily

infidel

House Speaker Gingrich 

 rolls the wedding tape again 

 low-fidelity

hard to get

Turks' ardor has cooled 
 the EU's yesterday's news 
now, China looks hot

budget games

Dancing on the brink 
 holding taxpayers hostage 
 ''Washington chicken''

cui bono?

The System works fine 

 for Corporate Media 

 not for The People

one by one

Wilfred Owen's verse

transported the Akedah

in trenches, with mud

honking

the wind compresses
against Stinson's fancy homes
inverse gradient

bonds

Darwin's bitter joke
to perpetuate our genes
we believe in Love

synaesthesia

melbourne, Australia
an eight meter Theremin
sings with the dancers

bloated

Gingrich's ego
barely fit on AirForce One
narcissistic brat

reflexive

Putin blames Clinton
for protesters in Russia
he needs a mirror

reprisal

Eileen Foster charged
CountryWide with widespread fraud
BofA fired her

brat

Sununu's verdict
trying to work with the man
Newt is not stable

wingnut welfare

out of the campaign
Herman Cain signs on with Fox
back to the bullpen

new man

Newt Gingrich repents
hounding Bill while chasing tail
upstanding Christian

bad boy II

tantrums and gridlock
those who know him best agree
Newt is not stable

bad boy

Tantrums and gridlock
the GOP's loose cannon
Newt is not stable

narcissus

the Tea Party's fling
promises years of heart ache
Newt loves only Newt

its petty pace

iron turns to rust
muscles and dreams fade to flab
it's all metaphor

fickle

Dick Armey's rival
seducing his Tea Party
Gingrich gets around

dude, get a mirror II

blind to his own role
Putin would blame Hillary
 for Russians' unrest

dude, get a mirror

taking no credit
Putin would blame Hillary
for Russians' unrest

vaguely bluish veins
branch and twine on her pink thigh
a marbled statue

hegemon

the new colossus
German bankers hold the reins
bestriding Europe

priorities

defining issue
of Rick Santorum's campaign:
bestiality

forsaken

hard to reconcile
winters in North Dakota
with a loving God

one percent

ten thousand dollars
Romney's pocket-change wager
he's so out of touch

solvent

Three coinage metals 

 until it crysalizes 

 dissolve in fused quartz

the humanity

Keep cameras rolling 
 don't miss the reaction shot 
 theater's in the eyes

nice trick!

Darwin's illusion 

to perpetuate our genes 

 we believe in Love

carbonia

Sufficient pressure 

 tetrahedral CO2 

 as brittle as quartz?

bright idea

Shake an electron 

 depending on just how hard 

 a photon falls out

we're baaack

With apologies 

 for SETI's interruption 

 Hat Creek's back online

crumple Zone

There wasn't much left 

after the airbags deployed 

steel origami

Please, sir!

Gingrich turns backwards 

 Dickensian policy 

 give mops to children 

contagion

Italy's troubles 
 won't be contained easily 
 too big to bail out 

fat fads

Palm-oil plantations 
 tanked on cholesterol fears 
 rebound on trans-fats

stagnant

Mere austerity 

 won't revive economies 

someone has to spend

hugging and mugging

Candidates jostle 
who will get the Mark of Cain? 
 tainted endorsement

long time coming

Rod Blagojevich 
 pleads for mercy from the court 
 it's ''fucking golden''

intellectual deficit

Gingrich bloviates 

 he'd ''replace'' Bashar Assad 

 put it on his tab

in his own words

Syria's regime 

''led by a crazy person'' 

kills its own people

amok

America's choice: 
 imperial ambitions 
 trample human rights

John Brown

Terrorists? Prophets? 
 the raid on Harper's Ferry 
 galvanized action

flipper de flopper

Positions evolve 
 or, in the case of Romney 
mutate randomly

seige

A first stream of ants 
 probes my doorframe for weakpoints 
 heralds of Winter

underwriters

Egypt's generals 
 still get paid from Washington 
tacit endorsement

cold

Marc Rothko's painting 
 evokes no response at all 
Is this thing turned on?

tidy

Mass and energy 
balanced against gravity 
add up to nothing

the roar of the waters

A tide of Black Hats 
 swirls through Brooklyn's narrow streets 
 to greet the sabbath

say what?

Gerald Ford pardoned 
 unenumerated crimes 
evil precedent 

risky

Herman Cain pulled out 
 before harassment's proven 
 bid interruptus

stigma

Who grabs his backers? 
 anyone whom he'll endorse 
 gets the Mark of Cain

surreptitious

Dark helicopters 
disguised as conspiracies 
 prowl the skies by night

Mossadegh

In Iran's oil-fields 
 the last outpost of empire 
 threw off Britain's yoke

leadership

Soldiers in training 
need a spiritual guide 
 to say it's ok

schizo

Rationalizing 
 unexamined biases 
 Newt is of two minds