Cup of gluttony

When you take skim milk
in your coffee, heavy cream
is an indulgence.

Scenes from an Italian restaurant chain

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

No pumpkin pie

Instead, a pumpkin
cheesecake. Traditions are good.
Cheesecake is better.

Autumn precedence

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

Day after election day

I saw the losing
candidate cross
the empty parking lot.

Green home

Chuck tests our house for
energy efficiency.
We’re tight as a drum.

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.

November

Thanksgiving creeps up
fast, like a turkey farmer
wielding a sharp axe.

New furnace

Hadn’t realized the
thermostat had to be set.
Freezing at 60.