Sunday, March 29, 2009

smoke

fuming

onlookers worry
'bout fumes on the highest floor
where incense sticks burn

draped in fog the moon
hiding behind a smoke-screen
or merely fuming
~ ~
[apr 02.09.thurs]

burning at both ends
in her lips the cigarette
can you smoke grief out ..

/original/zg

Monday, March 23, 2009

equals

inequality
unequal the sun and moon
and thank god for it

in equality *
minus a plinth or lintel
the earth is your home ..

/original/z.g.

[ED-everything equal *]

Monday, March 16, 2009

farewells

it's agonizing
farewells take away something
it's never ok

while parting they say
that everything keeps moving
memories do not ..

/original/zg

Saturday, March 7, 2009

fork in the road

'splits'

keeps bifurcating
finding a pied-a- terre
keeps bifurcating

either both are wrong
or hopefully both are right
or one of them is ..

/original/zg

Sunday, March 1, 2009

circles

a potter's wheel turns
the cups hardly understand
that someone's thirsty

just a broken cup
fondly picked up by someone
who undertstands thirst ..

/original/zg