the face of the waters

vayehi erev
the Deep murmurs endless psalms
to an upstart god

stranded III

lame, unrestful sleep
sailors claim tucked in shore beds
unrocked by the sea

Change I can believe in

president Warren
could be what Obama's not
run, Elizabeth!

stranded II

what lame, restless sleep
sailors claim tucked in shore beds
unrocked by the sea

stranded

paralyzed shore-bed
not rocked on the sea's bosom
offers no real rest

frenemy

Ashfaq Kayyani
hid Osama bin Laden
abetting his crimes

ordered

four hydrogen bonds
two donors, two acceptors
bind each node in ice

above that

no prosecutions
money buys impunity
if you're CitBank

shallow

forget policy
most American voters
will pick the tall guy

container for the thing contained

embarrelled hobbit
entrances the audience
more than the jugged hare

how, not why

absurd creation
Darwin's dangerous idea
dispenses with "why"

baseline

all Winter gardens
whatever the Summer crop
default to favas

values

Joe Gordon-Levitt's
directorial debut
weigh's love against lust

prophet without honor

"this is the abyss
from which there is no return"
                                               Senator Frank Church

criminal

Cheney and justice
won't meet in a U.S. court
he'll have to travel

recursive loop

some things have no place
in the Rabbinic cosmos
e.g. the first tongs

the horror

Ugandan soldiers
will resort to plundering
if they don't get fed

tzuri

technologies change
inalienable rights
aren't supposed to

glossy

any salesman knows
confidence not competence
impresses the chumps

framing

Art means Editing
in any complete story
everybody dies

yearning to breath free

what makes a "People"?
maybe Lincoln got it wrong
liberate Texans!

the game

Hillary's pattern:
embracing powerful men
more than policies

factional

split the GOP!
Jim DeMint for president!
2016

trending

Kermit Lynch opines:
"some wines are in, some are out"
it's not quality

high crimes

J.P. Morgan/Chase
pled for non-prosecution
Holder showed some balls

human condition

unlike for singles
loneliness inside marriage
has no safe outlet

a stitch in time

dermatologists
don't wait for full-blown cancers
they cut out nevi

wait...for...it...

imminent moonrise
lurking just behind the hill
palpable tension

greater good

judge Murray Gurfein
asserted the People's rights
against State Secrets

war chant

tribal politics
TeaParty "economics"
aren't rational

highly sustainable

venison's virtues
nothing's more sustainable
than my garden pests

cost/benefit

Macchiavelli
anticipated Bentham
tallying insults

atavistic

Ted Cruz's fanclub
still fighting the Civil War
just seem petulant

that's heavy

JimBridger dragline
custom metamorphosis
makes slate on demand

new under the sun!

Greenwald's new venture
independent journalists
answer to no one

qui bono

rescuing WallStreet
at the taxpayers' expense
Geithner knew who's boss

credible

are They after him?
just because he's paranoid
doesn't mean They're not

too nice

issue by issue
premature compromises
cramp Obama's game

old tech

ribosome function
proteins are prostheses on
RNA machines

logical necessity

Talmudic rabbis
dispensed with recursive loops
e.g. the first tongs

job security

were the world at peace
spy agencies built for war
would sabotage it

abrupt

like Athena's birth
the dawn of literacy
found Homer, full-formed

in through the window

profound brain insights
two-photo microscopy
penetrates the mush

some are more equal

John Boehner's ego
bolstered by the Hastert Rule
guts democracy

finite

the deaths of others
teach us to number our days
all is transience

flubber

Chicken McNuggets:
composite material,
elastomeric

recycled

Chicken McNuggets
glued together from nuggets
the cat wouldn't eat

reynolds' constraints

smooth, laminar flow
works for albatross and shad
not for jellyfish

distinct

baruch haMavdil!
God of discriminations
and mishpat echat

prime/pump

if you're quick enough
two-photon excitations
cheat quantization

constraints

one can't help thinking
she would enjoy dancing more
without the high heels

bought

creeping dementia
infiltrates our politics
on a flood of checks

not with the program

virgins in BlueStates
aren't screwing anyone
failed Republicans

spring

each flowering shrub
in Basho's imagery
springs as a surprise

inside job

another billion
Richard Blum didn't deserve
the insdider's life

invested

no one gets out free
attachments cause suffering
love is bought with pain

all is relative

governor Jeb Bush
plays the adult in the room
among screaming brats

packed

double entendres
pack the most into haiku
reading each word twice

discriminating

we communicate
only as we simplify
whole Truth's too fuzzy

unproven

open with a joke
Manoah had no children
and no second wife

brat

irresponsible
BananaRepublicans
asking to get spanked

aleatory

Jeremy Rifkin
professional fear-monger
may be right (some day)

enriched

critical thinking
drives Republicans away
from the sciences

GI,GO II

sham democracy
polls voters' prejudices
but denies them facts

GI, GO

media matter
where voters can't trust the news
democracy fails

liar II

House Speaker Boehner
thinks nothing of dissembling
he lies to himself

Rambam

Guide for the Perplexed

recociled Aristotle

for reluctant Jews

discernment

Lord, grant me coffee!
to change the things I can change
and wine for the rest

extrajudicial

Navy transport ship
portable Guantanamo
laws may not apply

liar

lying to himself
representative Boehner
contempt of Congress

unreliable

falsus in unum
falsus est in omnibus!
you can't trust a crook

forethought

lay drunks on their sides!
vomiting flat on their backs
they can aspirate

tits on a boar

Klugey compromise
RomneyCare keeps insurers
where they have no role

bleached II

dawn shrinks my cosmos

down to a solar system

all else fades to noise

the smallprint

in Western Europe
Denmark's the biggest country
(if you count Greenland)

bleached

October sunrise
sluices Orion away
in floods of photons

what's done isn't done

Boehner and his thugs
when RomneyCare passed Congress
bargained in bad faith

behind the times

atavistic fears
sent a grown bear galloping
from Scott's mere shadow

Absurd

waiting for dinner
"the barbecue's out of meat"
                                           Samuel Beckett

chicken fingers

transglutaminase
lets one sculpt things out of "meat"
undreamt in nature

reformulated

since it isn't meat
what defines "chicken nuggets"?
transglutaminase

undercover

John Boehner's fake tan
hides the moments he must blush
to spout such bullshit

manipulated

Boehner's brinksmanship
doesn't risk his salary
other people's lives

meddlesome

congress mandated
eleven carrier groups
indefensible!

used

sanctimonious
BananaRepublicans
play voters for fools

cumulative

each swig of whiskey
swelling like an organ chord
builds the weekend buzz

partisans

nation hostage to
BananaRepublicans
ungovernable

tacit

first rule of FightClub:
you don't talk about FightClub
there's no second rule

blah blah blah

Americans have
the Right to remain Silent
too few enjoy it

uniformed crime

Kenyan army troops
prolonged Nairobi's mall siege
while they looted shops

priorities

Boehner feels their wrath
government shut-down's not cute
panda-cam went dark!

Ozymandias

only ribs remain
profane cromlech in the sand
that had been a whale

delusion

Boehner's the new Newt
proudly claiming victory
while voters ditch him

Gargantua

JimBridger dragline
lays a foot-path of new slate
where there had been shale

ante

Bacevich tallies
the price of citizenship:
everybody serves

extractive

deforestation
fuels Somalia's Shabaab
exporting charcoal

played

against Soviets
we armed the Muhajedin
Arms merchants won big

We, the People

congressman Rush Holt
wants the PATRIOT Act scrapped
voice of sanity

42

everyone, always
is part of the solution
no one knows to what

control

controlling queen bitch
towers over her courtieres
by tearing them down

spatial

oriental rugs
carve a home out of bare sand
where I've pitched my tent

purblind

orange John Boehner
sees "breathtaking arrogance"
in his own tactics

untouchable

everyone concedes
James Clapper holds enough dirt
to tear down the sky

retrograde

Morsi's overthrow
betraying the Arab Spring
served no sane purpose

the Schoolcraft horrors

terrorists in blue
unlawful imprisonment
by Bloomberg's police

terrorists in blue

Schoolcraft documents
unlawful imprisonment
by Bloomberg's police

puppeteer II

who's pulling who's strings?
until James Clapper gets fired
Obama's suspect

puppeteer

Until Clapper's fired
we know Obama's hostage
to his own spy-chief

James Clapper

Obama's spy-chief
collects dirt on everyone
"job security"

Shiva's messenger

the Porlock merchant
interrupting Coleridge
blew a world to smoke

before time

page two: b'reshit
the creation of Tehom
happened on page one

indefensible!

Damn the torpedoes!
eleven carrier groups
are above question

punctuate

poorly socialized
the panda eats, shoots, and leaves
never tips the staff

bugs

a glut of lobsters
cheaper than dungeness crabs
buggers the market

unchecked

transformed in-situ
riddled with teratomas
ends some stem-cell dreams

stigma

"modular housing"
escapes the class-stigma of
"prefabricated"

risky

pseudoephedrine
fuels the meth epidemic
why's this OTC??

force of nature

JimBridger dragline
leaves a footpath of new slate
where there had been shale

fallen prince

Beijing's party line
Bo XiLai's the corrupt one
unique in his class

immersive

the best of peaches
shouldn't be eaten indoors
or with a shirt on 

defunded

FauxNews viewership
should "win" one-way vacations
to Somalia

mike-time

Ted Cruz's gabfest
deferred the nation's business
to serve his ego

flow II

"frangar non flectar"
what was virtue in old Rome
now gets you divorced

opportunity

breeder reactors
run on U238
that had been called "waste"

flow

life is what happens
while you're making other plans
who won't bend will break

predator

William Rapfogel
earned a special place in Hell
bilking charities