At the Diner – #22

Usually I eat alone sometimes I write notes sometimes I read sometimes I do nothing observe other diners polite to the server do not leave large tip even though I used to be a waitress. for nine year I toiled in a restaurant Howard Johnson’s…

Treaty

Foxes are sly they move fast Black bear black bear come follow me I have something for you to see Bring your little friend her sweetness will help together we will work to clean this mess tagging of all the walls In this city as…

Hour 23 – Place

A Special Place There is a place where dreams can all be found; Hope and despair both dwell within its walls. Enduring fear screams loud without a sound, Love is alive inside its magic halls, In fact, in here, the world’s not always round. Brave…

The Kitchen at Exit to Oakland

It isn’t the number of people that determines the number of  refrigerators, It’s the number of households, Or, to put it another way, The number of Moms. One mom can set up the rules for a single refrigerator for the clan, but that requires discipline…

Highway 50

Scorching dust drifts across blacktop Shimmering mirages just out of reach, Slipping closer to the horizon each passing mile Desert heat searing nostrils, Sweat drips from nose, sizzling on pavement below They call 50 “The Loneliest Highway in America” A straight shot across barren nothingness…

Railway Mayhem #16

Deep booms shake the Earth as trains belch out smoke formed as a result of their undigested coal lunches.   Clanking and screeching of metal dragged against metal blending into the cacophony of sound erupting from every corner.   Elbowing, stomping and kicking. Frantic agitated…

Frolic

Frolic at dawn when day has begun and frolic at dusk while setting the sun Frolic in moonlight with glee Let others see you frolic in revelry

The Moon by the Lake

Sitting here by the lake Sprawled on a mat on a jeep The moon rises to show its glory It’s perfect but spare me the rhetoric Really? Crescent moon by the lake in the deep of night Did I conjure this up or did it…