seat of the pants

flying by weight-shift
lift tends to spit our wings out
it's all dynamic

ire compras

mercado sidewalk
not just fruits and vegetable
that sack squirms and oinks

relativism

"sink-alarm goggles"
bad spots look more like LZs
as I get lower

engaged

brakes, bar and weight-shift
on a wing without battens
pilot's gotta dance

tropism

bakeshop aromas
I hear my footsteps falter
mutinous rumblings

ageless

in lothlorian
a vision of the World's youth
defies the ages

thwarted

Wanda's outstretched arm
struck me down just short of town
one more great LZ

tacit

wooing fair Helen
no one spoke of her dowry
that would have been crass

sweetener

two Atreides
each ruled kingdoms of their own
heck of a dowry!

dowry

'though he raised four kids
Tyndareus' male line
ends at Hermione

symbolic speech

fireworks finale
nothing says "Peace" like white doves
going up in flames

festive

pyrotechnic hell
erupts on el Zocalo
random saint's name-day

gnomen

accommodating
a bit more sunscreen each year
as hairlines retreat

holiday

Third-world cheesebox cars
joust with oncoming lorries
on rain-slick asphalt

4-D

geologists' eyes
see narrative in terrain
all is transience

Patriarch

Joseph Kennedy
spearheaded the SEC
that banned his old tricks

Leftist?

Jay Rockefeller
understands corporations
need to be reined in

stiff-necked

Time's not on our side
the "fierce urgency of Now"
is lost on Bibi

the fierce urgency of Now

time's not on our side
Occupation's corrosive
to Israelis' souls

tantrum

feet drum the carpet
hissy fit waiting to board
it's hard, being two

welfare

millionaire farmers
reap most of the subsidies
while smallholders starve

out of order

emotionally
Chris Christie's still in HighSchool
next step: detention

Poindexter's acolytes

DomainAwareness
would charge Oakland citizens
to oppress ourselves

class

Eumaeus' tale
betrayed to live a slave's life
comments on Joseph's

portents

flaming scimitar
dangles over the City
Moon of Damocles

put 'em all in one boat...

alliance of fools
David Brooks endorses Searle
famed for being wrong

when you can fake sincerity, you've got it made

when roles called for it
Phillip Seymour Hoffman blushed
just part of his craft

slime

Glenn Beck's contrition
for debasing our discourse
can't undo the harm

coward

loyal to no one
Ted Cruz keeps a spare passport
for when times get tough

pesel

iconoclast Jews
scold the maharal of Prague
who wrought a Golem

rationalist

sir Isaac Newton
tired of puerile mysteries
unwove the rainbow

non-Cartesian

rabbi Arthur Greene
taught where the Torah says "up"
we should read "inwards"

qui bono?

who stands to profit
Smedley Butler laid it out
"war is a racket"

priest-hole

afraid to commit
the "Mouth of Manitoba"
keeps a spare passport

compelled

compulsive builders
the mishkan as concession
to yetzer haRah

omen

blazing scimitar
dangles over the City
Moon of Damocles

bad blood

Atreus waxed wroth
that his brother screwed his wife
had him to dinner

have it your way

compulsive builders
the mishkan as concession
to yetzer haRah

to mark the seasons

a Cheshire cat's smile
'disembodied in the sky
New Moon of the Horse

deal!

Wildstein took the deal
thirty pieces of silver
nailed Chris Christie's ass

accommodating II

martyring himself
forgives his cheating boyfriend
turns the nether cheek

accomodating

sodomy haiku
twelve beats set up the punchline
"turn the nether cheek"

greed

Rand followed Nietzsche
a philosophy of greed
exalts parasites

tough nut

they solved what's simple
Leonardo and Newton
left us  turbulence

patron of the arts

Rothko and Pollack
backed by CIA money
indulged their egos

undue influence

WalMart director
aspires to serve the People
up as canapes

tainted

hiring Clinton's wife
WalMrt purchased influence
with the governor

driven

Pete Seeger sang on
long after his voice was gone
dragons yet to slay

it's all relative

Sartre's human hell
and Buber's God connection
both of them were right

be here now

intensely focused
on drift and perturbation
biking through the snow