1997 - Melancholia --./..how fleeting is fame ,/ how fickle is friendship. . .--from Thomas Sowell
2010 - Four bluebirds, / a sparrow / balancing / in winter's wind /on the thin / beautyberry / twigs, eating / frozen fruits.
2013 - Lit-up raindrops / fall from the streetlight / like the downside / of sky-ed fireworks.
[Written while a resident at The Writers Colony @ Dairy Hollow, Eureka Spings, AR]
2013 - Rain has no sound / except as it falls / on something--a dry leaf, / a trash can, the deck flooring.
2022 - "Oh, no," I said / when reading he died--/ Sidney Poitier --/ and when she died--/ Betty White. / I wonder who'll say / "Oh, no," when I die.
2022 - THE FLAT SHEET: In the washer, / it kept to itself. / In the dryer, / it gathered its companions / in a warm embrace.
c 2026, PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA
