Garden Lady

Garden Lady

 
 
 
Early Spring morning
Sunlight and fresh air
wafting through open window
 
Someone walking 
through the leaves
of last Fall
 
There stands Garden Lady
with two fists full
of bundled brown
 
Empowered joy
shining on her face
Barefoot on the Earth
and grounded
 
Hail, Spring!
 
 
–Marshal McKitrick
Loquacious Child

Loquacious Child

 
 
 
Even in the most complicated
situations
where multiple considerations
intertwine into complexities
yet undetermined
whether beauteous or mundane
 
every present still
the loquacious child
babbling on incessantly
making sense of all
non-sensicalities
speaking only as a means of safe
protection from the dangerous 
silence puffered up
 
lurkers tip-toe like prancing 
rhinos or clogging clowns
who cares the well place metaphor
when gusts the saddened face
when bottoms fall out like anchors
from in that unsafe place
tell me, did I land on sacred ground?
 
And so, and so my cranium grates
in grateful pleasant
saturated with sweetness
and a slight taste of bitter
yet and still but not so much
in all that destiny

 

Wisdom Waken

Wisdom Waken

 
 
A crack in the world
letting the light arrive
awakening mystery
amidst normal day to day
shadow felled in one swoop
one breaking open
on dawning
 
tell me more with lively
let the wisdom waken
colors dancing on the tip
awareness ogled sweetly
glowering harrumphs
glowingly once more
 
on the path to never said it
in the age of mellowness
there the hints of other
profiles rise to firmament
through mud’s disguise

 

Caterpiano

Caterpiano

 
 
old abandoned and rusty
usefulness no more
still you could tell
dancing fingertips once
wrought harmony’s fusion
 
heels clicked and squiveled
skirts skirted and whooshed
terrains yet overlooked
blithely measured notes
now ghostly impressions
 
handsome decrepitude
enshrined in dereliction

 

Birth Day

Birth Day

 
 
there is nothing more spiritual
infused with awe and gratitude
imbued with life’s luscious
essence of sacred breath
than entrance into this world
 
years ago in almost spring
with the innate aplomb
innocence and elemental grit
creation’s nature
you appeared yowling and kicking
a blessing bound forever in my heart
 
 
Today is my eldest daughter’s 37th birthday. Happy birthday!!

 

New Habit

New Habit

 
As you embark
On the journey
Of new habit
 
May the road
Of intentions
Prove smooth and joyous
 
May the unfamiliar pattern
become extraordinarily
ordinary with ease and grace