FOUND poems

Haiku

one frozen apple
with blistered, shiny skin ~
creek runs under ice
~Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Senryu

she trained herself
to live 'in deprivation'
just half-sticks of gum
~Joan Didion on Emily Harris

famous
for being famous:
Anna Nicole Smith
~ from the news

her 88th year
most successful one ever
in winning contests
~Hazel Bell Nicholas, personal correspondence

still out of step
twenty years later . . .victim
of a different drum
~Joan Didion, After Henry

". . . living
past celebrity
to exhaustion"
~about W. Faulkner & E. Hemingway by John Leonard (New Yorker)

"coaches
using words like surreal--
that's surreal."
~Doug Smith, AR Times

". . . single to married
to single in
thirty-six hours"
~Barry Gottlieb on Britney Spears

Valentine's Day and Snow

Valentine's weekend
playing in new snow
not far from the Gulf
~
after a walk
Valentine candy breakfast
melting in my hand
~
Valentine's Day
on their anniversary
he files for divorce
~
a lilac sky
this lover's-day morning
but in the west
~
Valentine's Day
last vestiges of big snow
but more is falling
~
No Luck
Kitten
crouches from trench
in the snow, preparing
to launch an attack on a bird
nearby.
~
gradual snowmelt
revealing stepping stones'
"Patience," "Laugh"
~
kittens pushing
"Let It Snow" porch rug
into the drifting white stuff
~
c lovepat press 2010

February already?

new snow
on pink japonica blooms~
Groundhog Day
~
a bird's nest
cradling a newborn
burden of snow
~
leaving the bus stop
bright light in rearview mirror's
the cold morning sun
~
the vacant house
filching late daffodil buds
to force into blooms
~
beginning of Lent
the matte of ashes above
her shimmery blouse
~
west wind
thawing the thin ice
on the birdbath
~
30 degrees
only the paperman's tracks
in the ice and snow
~
c lovepat press 2010