Rose Parade

Flower covered floats
in a warm SoCal city
I’ll never visit.

Fiscal cliff

Cost to average
household: Five thousand. Voting
the bums out: Priceless.

 

New Year’s Eve: ball drop

If we look ahead
in hope, optimism,
then shouldn’t the ball rise?

New Year’s Eve: things left undone

Now’s the time to look
back at what was forgotten
and recall with love.

Visitors to a dead blog

WordPress stats: twenty-
two-thousand views in ’12. This
despite no new posts.

Ocean waves

I type in a dim
dark room listening to surf.
There’s an app for that.

Buckingham Fountain

What naiad dances
in your pulsing, surging heart,
calling me to her?

Deciding not to go to Junior Prom

“I just want to feel
pretty,” she says through her tears.
She already is.

Radio interview

You ask, I answer.
Opinions fly. No right, wrong.
It’s all subjective.

Levenger

Trying to make work
indulgent, a nine-to-five
wage slave’s fantasy.