october 2016

and so i have to make my choice

favorite poets of the day

rae armaentrout
fanny howe (and her sister susan
carolyn knox

why i no longer want to live
anywhere except fort worth

it is the city of my birth
it is the source of my current girth
it gives me joy; it gives me mirth
the streets and structures of fort worth

so inscribed i my mind and my genes
i can hardly imagine a rice and beans

more palatable or desirable
than this simple fare so improbable

that i should encounter at seventy-one
so much to my taste and
so much damned good fun

garth brooks

i don't mean to be difficult
if you get me a tif it could become an occult
i cultivate simplicity, openness, transparency

i languish with relish in regular lines
and do not apologize for trite tested rhymes

"her husband's to aleppo gone"
one of the weird sisters in "macbeth"
fra lippo lippi
give me no lip    olippo
lapping at the side of the boat

"on a cliff overlooking darien
mary anne
maid marian

i think i'm going out to eat
that would be a wondrous feat
the food might from my fork just leap
i think i'm going out to eat

honeysuckle so
sweet in the dallas night
air, spilling all over itself
to almost cover the cracked sidewalk
my bother and i, 7 and 5,
plucked the abundant blossoms
pulled on the stamens and
sucked the sweet transparent nectar
that emerged from the tunnel of
the trumpeting flower, one bright
taste at a time...never completely
satisfying, we continued our harvest
until we got bored with it...it
was a distraction in the southern
dark with grandmother and granddaddy
secure inside, so sweet themselves
we barely would survive their passing