Saturday, October 14, 2017

Weather machine blessings



Wasn’t it
the rain that put shine
on the street
and made us
shiver closer together
locked step, arm in arm?  



Written for Marian's prompt at over at toads. She asked is write in the fussy little form of Shadorma, which is a six line not rhyming poem with the syllable structure of 3-5-3-3-7-5. 

Sunday, October 8, 2017

Opened ended letter to a lobsterman

Dear lonely sir, 

How do we square 
with the fact 
that those knots and nets
you leave in the harbor 
will never hold me?


Brief piece written for the first Camera Flash challenge over at real toads.