Never too long at the Fair

I sit up in bed
Watching the clouds
Rally
Between the mountain spurs
They gather and disperse
Through the valleys
The crowd at the carnival
Light against dark
Winding its way
Amongst the rides
The birds as Barkers
Step this way
The greatest show on earth

Memorial Day Do-Over

On a Memorial Day weekend

Today you took your promised girl to the beach
Like your grandmother had promised us
But never did
And never would

Your Father tended the grass
As he'd promised he would
And did
But never will again

Today I mowed the grass
As promised
I would and will again

May Day May Day

on a cold rainy day in may

time is measured

not with a yardstick

but in cups of tea

in logs

chucked into the wood stove

distance not

through the fog

but far away places

that exist only in my mind

tempo in rain splat

that crackles

like the fire