April 27

2020
Scavenger
Speckles
Day 10......found it difficult to decide on the final cover
2018
From Mom’s balcony
So sudden and glorious
Should I take the call?
I suddenly see 
Her fabulous new artwork. 
I am so jealous.
2017
Today's Date Due stamp,
For 2 weeks hence: my last day.
Life measured in ink.

2014
The drive in today's 50+mph wind was truly awesome, with lines of cars driving 10 mph UNDER the speed limit, but what really caught my attention were the piles of tumbleweeds: caught in the fences, lining the ditches, dashing across the road, crunching under my tires, hopping and dancing...

Behind the white dust,
Ghostly mountain silhouettes.
I know they are there.

Dust-hidden mountains,
A barrage of tumbleweeds:
The wind rocks my car.

Brown fuzzy fences
Fail to stop the tumbleweeds.
My grille wears their spines.

Tumbleweeds gather
Beneath the road crew's parked trucks.
Plotting an attack?

I really had fun
Singing Britten's "Mouse" solo.
The audience smiled.

2013
View to the west: stripes!
Blue on top, then brown, then green.
Spring in the Bosque.

2011
The long hill-walk home?
The treed squirrels? Fenced-in dogs?
She's panting so hard.

2010
Outsiders show up. 
The people they want are gone, 
Missing in action

2009
i love the sound of rain on the skylight.
nope, visited doctor and got antibiotics and asthma meds. better, but still have no voice. boring.

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