Children laugh and play Each donning a brightly colored raincoat Steam rising from cement As they stomp and splash In puddles left over From the warm summer rain They ask for jars To collect fireflies as evening falls

Eat your frogs so that by early evening you can delight in tomatoes, prepping them for winter in jars, the way gramma taught you. Together you sliced them, chasing the diced bits around the cutting boards like small children chase ducklings. Take your raincoat, and…

The sounds just around the corner was a mystery The children listened for nights but still couldn’t solve it They tipped out one evening to see what they could find And just beside the neighborhood pond was a cute surprise The sounds were from a…

I carried my jars out into the evening, calling my children to get into their raincoats and come in search of mystery and science. We walked to the boundary where the town ceased and the floodplains began ssh.. the music changed from car hums to…

    Sun setting in the evening A raincoat on its hook Steam rises from a pot in the kitchen. There are jars of tomatoes within. The frogs beneath the tomato vines croak, their chorus in perfect harmony with the children as they play. The mystery…

Frogs don’t chirp this Strangely silent evening. Not a peep from my tomatoes Struggling to please me More than last year’s jars Of deep red succulence. Less steam today. The desert deluge passed into Texas And we didn’t see a drop Peculating for dry clay….

There once was a rule of 10. It counted our numbers. It numbered our streets and ordered our money. We learned it again and again. But that changed last night during my quiet, sweet slumber. Now we go as far as 4–no more, my honey. 0, 1, 2, and 3….

  Frogs. Raincoat, steam percolating. Evening tomatoes, jars. Children elbow: mystery.  

  Here’s what happens when the poles shift Negative and positive recombine Magnetism reverses As it does pretty regular in geologic time, Which didn’t mean much to us last go. But oh, the wailing on the wind this time! You might be able to use…

Unbeknownst to most, Save for only a few, The laws of science are put to a vote And the laws are then renewed Last time, Pluto’s fate was sealed The system now a skewed. This time, we have a new conflict Between gravity and magnetic…