Irrational

I love the too big
coffee table that takes up
most of this small room.

Unnecessary

The espresso cups,
sleekly designed, just one more
thing to put away.

High school

You’ll never again
feel pain, joy both at once. Be
so at odds with life.

Children’s show

J’s Sleeping Beauty.
Small kids grab at her princess
gown with sticky hands.

Scenes from an Italian restaurant chain

After the high school
show they flirt over pizza
sodas at Uno’s.

Autumn precedence

Trees have never held
leaves as late as November.
Frost was wrong. Gold stays.

Thanksgiving bird = bird giving thanks

Fourteen wild turkeys
on my back deck raid the grape
vines looking for fruit.

Artistic insight

Vision isn’t so
much a function of seeing
as it is feeling.

Creative class

with props to selfinterestandsympathy for this one 

I will often cite
Richard Florida’s ideas.
People stare blankly.

Passage to India

I’m not here. I’m lost
in Varanasi. A world
Luke Storm opened wide.