Wonder

wonder. does

wood in a wall

want to be

the tree again

sky soaks trees

in blue

trees soak sun

into green

wonder why green

isn’t skin color

wonder. should shadows

fall

with sound

crack of dawn silent

like thunder. light

carpet unrolling

colors

water looks

like sky

skin looks

like bark

that was

so we could hide

in trees

What Fever Taught Me

While July heat

cooks the mob

I swim in it

your sweat

wet hands

flip pages

books

newspapers

magazines

slide on

plastic techno

letters

learning subtle

global climate change

ramifications

implications

costs

Herr Fahrenheit’s

gadget marks

your temper

in solidarity

weather changes

fashion opportunity

10 % inspiration

90 % perspiration

heaven sent

for progress

I’ll cheerlead

my smile broadens

my speed increases

I think

go commando

Words of Wisdom

work is learning

from repetition.

repeat until bored.

be bored more.

repeat until boredom

is boring, then …

lights flash

in the brain!

sudden

understanding follows,

animal noises

issue from

widened buccal

cavity like

ah! hah! oh! oooh! … or

eww!

coworkers notice

who repeatedly ask,

what’s with all

the sound effects?

the wise

say nothing.

Father's Time

it now seems so clear that time and he

provoked mutual feelings of mistrust

dad hated daylight savings time pretense

sometimes refusing to change timepieces

or letting them tick long after adjustment

would have measured his morning booze

years and years after death grappled

with his stubborn insistence on style

clocks could suddenly wind themselves

to their minute of permanent oblivion

folded hands forever paralyzed against

Westminster chiming a sullen 13 o’clock

even father’s precise death moment,

unknown to professional timekeepers

governmentals whose very lives depend

upon a dotting of ‘I’s and crossing of ‘t’s,

lives within a perpetual mystery realm