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Missed the bus
Now she has time to
blow dry her hair while I rub
away sleep, then drive.
Corey Haim
When Robert Frost wrote
“Nothing gold can stay,” he could
have described child stars.
Christmas LED lights
Like laser pointers
they blind in red green blue as
they save the planet
Silence
You don’t notice the
absence of sound until you
strain to hear something.
Unemployed Christmas
Can days be merry
and bright? Jobs – like ornaments –
fragile, out of reach.
Ugly photo
She keeps it displayed
to remind herself that once
she didn’t know it
She watches me…
…create. Impatient
that I won’t pay attention
when I’m writing stuff.
Not among the 6%
“Let’s go to the beach!”
One kid, online, shrugs as the
other keeps texting.
“In a typical week, only 6 percent of children ages nine to thirteen play outside on their own.”
from The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream by Christopher B. Leinberger
Already mid-July
And so summer goes
like fishing line cast into
swift moving waters
a haiku a day 