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MADAMA BUTTERFLY
An evening at Marion
Oliver McCaw Hall,
Seattle Center as we
arrive for Madama Butterfly,
Puccini's opera in
whi..
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PIKE PLACE MARKET
One of the oldest U.S.
farmer's markets,
nine acres (between
First & Western Avenues
bound by Union &a..
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EARLY SPRING, ALASKAN HIGHWAY
Vans, campers, cars all stopped
as bison amble on the new-born road,
licking winter salt.
People brandish..
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WOOF, WOOF
Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘Sound of Silence’ in 1964 led to the duo
breaking apart, but if I was a modern lyricist, u..
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FROM THE WINDOW OF A SPACESHIP
For an astronaut, it never gets tedious -
ninety-two minutes, another sunrise
emerges in blackened spac..
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THE
MONOTONY OF HABIT
Without
complaint, the chestnut gelding
bears
the weight of heavy German tourists,
responds
sluggishly to ..
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BASEBALL STATS
(sung by Willie Nelson)
A radio program on
baseball,
and the commentator
comments on its lore,
love of stats conc..
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HILTON HEAD HAIKUS
Pelican floating
A post Icarus-like plunge
Water gives and takes
Green Palmetto trees
Spreading thei..
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Senryu
dirt ditch dug deeply
to accommodate plastic
that wraps all the dead
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THE SOCIALISM OF THE
HEDGE
It does not enjoy
vivid colours
of rose or hibiscus,
but presents solid green,
symbolizing streng..
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