Saturday, June 22, 2013

Double Path


Some paths run
in two directions.

If you travel one,
you travel both.

To realize this
requires attention.

1 comment:

Dr. Mike said...

Farewell to Monarch Butterflies

The heat swarms like bugs
Before the yellow porch lights
And pants heavily

Its dogbreath tonguing
Soft fur of trapped animals
From cigar burns; stars,

Sunken in, smolder
And give up the well; ashes
Bloody the water.

*

Arrows have a point.
They reach what they have aimed for
And say, “So now what?”

*
Children hang from wires
And pretend they can fly or
Sing in unison;

Flags for buck teeth flap
Grim firecrackers, ripple steel
Drums of foreign oil

Worse than woodpeckers
In a controlled burn; hives drone
Charred needles of wasps.

[Disposable Haiku June 23, 2013]
Dr. Mike