Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

another cold wet day
godammit
house arrest

65 pounds
and still does he chase
butterflies

(He's a rescue - just abandoned out here in the boonies. No ID, no tags, no chip, no reports of missing dogs in adjacent towns. He's got some issues, but with some work he'll be a great dog.)

shower time
dog waits for door to close
then raids the trash

restless dog
weeklong icy rain
thanks, Kong toy!

cold raw day
the dog pulls me
through wet woods

summer of '69 - whitney blake wire extrusion wooden reels in that crumbling warehouse and, oh, yes marie zelinsky... new hampshire farmland rolling hills pastures alive with crickets testifying under the july sun to the gods of plenty... and forever conjoined in time: Neil's small step and my grampa...

sleeping dog whimpers
I stroke
his twitching thigh

fight the good fight -
a lotta poems
still need to get written

godspeed, sir

how did I get here? 66 next week or so 66 orbits around the sun spent scuba diving mountain climbing now I just walk the dog arthritis bifocals and retired... me, retired! jesus... a life of 8 to 5 jammin' in the lab lasers and tunes Gaussian profiles Mahavishnu Orchestra yeah man! physics kicks ass...

sleeping dog
his head in my lap
a clock ticks

rusted machinery
skeletal remains of
long-dead factory

empty house
memories echo
down its halls

my old black lab
brain tumor
pentathol
months in mourning
alter ego

where to hike today? consult the oracle topographical maps torn and dirty like thumb-smudged pages in a dog-eared bible book of isaiah or corinthians royalston quadrant otter river birch hill wildlife management area (BHWMA to us in the know) mclaughlin trail river meander ancient bridge abutments a...