Go Hit That Tree
March 30, 2009
(for MA and all women of the West)
Her Stetson’s
half as wide
as she is tall.
Horses?
Got three.
Guns?
Since she
was a girl.
Elk?
When she
can get the license.
Martial Arts?
She names a school
I don’t know.
What color belt?
No belt.
Daddy just
said things like
Go hit that tree
till it doesn’t hurt.
The Hustings
March 29, 2009
All the varieties
of misery
parade across
the city
in colors of
glowing gas.
Wet
asphalt
storm
sewers
how many
shades
of black.
Out in
the hustings
stores
are blank
light in
houses
is steady
orange
or flickers
blue.
Nobody
parades anywhere
except
on the Fourth.
The Way It Happens
March 19, 2009
She kissed her prince
and he became a frog.
It amazed her how
many princes that happened to.
On a Forest Path
March 13, 2009
inspired by Amy Singer,
in memory of Timothy Treadwell
He sang to the bear
and the bear sat down
Plummpf! The forest moved.
It was a made-up song
on no scale
about the light
in the bear’s fur
and the light in the trees’ leaves.
The bear listened.
And did not eat him that day.
Hornyboy
March 11, 2009
Cornfields made him think of sex.
Clouds made him think of sex.
Anything that came out
of the glowing car radio at night
went right into his brain.
The mothers stopped liking him
so he got along with the daughters.
Menace? What menace?
He liked driving fast through cornfields
on cloudy nights
with the radio loud.
Homeroom
March 10, 2009
Jovially
students threaten each other’s lives.
I yawn and say
take it outside –
blood stains the carpet.
Yesterday’s
absence excuses:
flu
court appearance
pregnancy.
We like each other.
You can tell.
Ids are loose but amused
at eight in the morning.
Office Window
March 9, 2009
Fallen leaves are just leaves
when they don’t have
toddlers to throw them around,
watch them twist down,
grab handsful and
flap them like wings.
Come away from there
says the teacher (a German)
to the little ones
That is a professor
as if naming a caged predator
or a piece of road machinery.
No, they’re beautiful!
I walk to the glass and say,
at a loss to tell her
how they’ve transformed the day.
Ruby (1960)
March 8, 2009
Cows in the barn
hay in the loft
wife in the kitchen
Uncle Otis
in his truck
rooster-tailing down the long lane
going to Dalton
to see his Ruby.
Increasing Traffic on Your Blog
March 7, 2009
When I registered Out of my Ears with Alpha Inventions. my traffic shot up about a hundred times what it was. Though it has since tapered off, I’m still doing pretty well with them.
Another blog surfer that has helped my traffic is Condron Enterprises. It’s not as active as alpha, but the blog pages stay up longer, so readers get a better chance to get what they’re about.
Most Favored Nation
March 6, 2009
for Tom Romano, who saved it from oblivion
