One Dog, Two Cats, Two Dogs
I’m with the dogs again;
I should set out a shingle
Neighbor’s dog (the only
Dog from whom I’ve
Received real hugs)
Friends’ cats, exercises
In indifference, until I’m
The only one to feed
Them
These two dogs in the
Family are older, whiny,
And demanding
I love them both
What kind of irony that
Saint Francis helps me
With my pets but has not
Yet arranged for the
Curing of my allergies
Iridescence
Of carnival glass
Sky turning from dusk to dark
Iris colors blending when
The eye carries a tear
Colors when they coalesce
Cannot make up their mind(s)
Which color might win
And not one color has to
W is for Wisdom
Wisdom sayings, wisdom verse
Aesop, the poetry of Donne
What Winnie the Pooh never
Learns from sticking his tummy
In a honey tree and, before that,
Rabbit’s house
What is wise to you, dear one?
Would you write it down? Or do
You believe in show more than
In tell?
Which means I’ll learn from
Watching you more than in
Pitiless, didactic discourse
I will look to you for wisdom
Other times in the book we know
We find out back—made of living
Page-leaves,
Bound in round tree bark, etched
By wind and ice, illumined by
Nature’s hand
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X is for, well, X
ten in the Roman system
the unknown planet in
old sci-fi films and maybe
new astronomy
the name of the ray the
Curies made in life and
death that we might see
below the skin
first letter in in the name
of the Persian warrior
on the other side of
Thermopylae,
same with a saint (a
university), a musical
instrument, and the
musician named Cugat
and, yes, the name that
gave the X to comic
books, television, graphic
novels, and films
first letter (transliterated
from Aztec) for
Xochimilco, the floating
gardens of Mexico
City,
which fed the center
of empire and now feeds
beauty for the city
first letter for a queen
who challenged Roman
might; her people
feared those from the
outside and for good,
tragic reason
her name became a
modern term, Xenobia
to xenophobia
it’s what we sometimes
use to correct; lefties
prefer it to writing a
check-mark
it starts the sequence for
both genders
it is a shape
it’s what’s used when a
whole signature is not
required
mostly, though, we know
what it’s for: in song, in
verse, in story—and the
human heart—it is
a symbol for the searcher
X marks this, doesn’t it?
where the treasure lay
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Canada’s First Family
Attawapiskat
First Nation
Northern Ontario
Where the compass
Points
They die there
At their own hand
Killing the present
The future and
Relation to the
Past
Rich culture made
Impoverished
Reservation life
Ten times more
The young men
Die, for women
Twenty-one times
A child of nine
An elder seventy-
One
A tear (a rush)
A tear (in tragic
Sadness) of
Counselors
Has been hurried
There, but where
Is the missing
Part of life
What will
Resolve the hole
Of promises
Where harsh
Unappealing life
Without prospect
Fifteen living in
A house for
Three or four
Community
Structure minimal
And faulty
A solution is re-
Connection to
Heritage
A renewed climb
To meet sibling
Spirits in the
Skies
Yet once on
Earth again how
Does renewed
Tradition survive
In mortal people
Pushed to the
Edge
Forced into
Living prepared
To push over
The government
Hears; maybe it
Sends the staff
But will it in
Fate complete
The rift of a
Spirit-people
Needing better
Earth to walk
Upon
Notes
U. S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High
by Sabrina Tavernise, 22 April 2016
WASHINGTON — Suicide in the United States has surged to the highest levels in nearly 30 years, a federal data analysis has found, with increases in every age group except older adults. The rise was particularly steep for women. It was also substantial among middle-aged Americans, sending a signal of deep anguish from a group whose suicide rates had been stable or falling since the 1950s.
V is for Vixen
A female fox, I think
Moving in from the country
To the London suburbs
Fox-hunting was outlawed,
You know, giving all the
Red-fur, sure-footed
Creatures and creations
A chance for a shopping
Life, residing maybe in
Duplexes
Red herring, reality before
Fallacy, was used to train
Hounds in fox-hunting:
What if it’s a delicacy for
Foxes now (red herring,
Not the hound)?
Fallacy become fact in
Reparation
With foxes in chaise
Lounges, leaning back
Into beneficent afternoon
Sunshine, snacking on
Salty fish
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U is for (Unseen)
What we are we cannot see
Values, mores, inclinations
Preference toward criminality
Or toward the light
Words make these real,
Sometimes more than actions
Actions become lessons in
Addition to what happened
And what was achieved
(môr′āz, thanks to freedictionary)
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Appalachian Highway
Moving life and death back
And forth: death dominated
On an earlier day
With eight persons shot in
Pike County homes, south
Of Columbus
Where the mountains rise
And God looks deep into
Vales
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