Deer on the roadsideWhite patches in their furNo need for winter clothes A Memory That Haunts me That night in a motelIn Prince GeorgeMarch 1985My son had taken too muchMedication for hisSchizophreniaHe lay on the bedHis hands clasped tightlyIn prayerAttempting to sort Whatever was going onInside his addledBrainHis little sister wasFrustratedThe movie she wanted to…

Today’s Haiku We come, make changes, go Each of us has a job despite Built-in obsolescence DAY 18 OF POETRY MONTH Medical Researcher Check the mice encased in cages They all have viruses in stages Give C & D some tetrycycline And E & F some extra-mycline I’d like to cure each mouse that’s ill…

Somewhere in this worldThe air is warm and grass is greenBut it isn’t here Springtime at the lakeWater between the cracksBirds perch on ice cubes Today’s a good dayToday is the best daySince yesterday Old people and youngShuffleboard at the LodgeAnd I almost won Round plates are betterForks don’t slide into the foodBut mine are…

Too Much TV Day 8 (a day late) At night I like to watch TVBritish shows appeal to meSet in rural geography I binged-watched Vera’sThirteen seasonsNever flinchedNor had a reasonHer murders helped meSleep at nightThough I’ve an affinityFor fright ‘The Unforgotten’Season threeIs gorier thanIt used to beI close my eyesBut still I seeThe knife as…

WISH YOU WERE HERE It was October1945Our family was caught upin the excitementjoy and reliefA sense of freedomThe WAR was over There had been dancingon the streetsThe baby-sitter wasjitter-buggingin our kitchenour mother singingalong with the radioNo more blackout curtainson the windows at nightNo more listening intentlyfor a blast from the sirensomewhere on the Coastthree miles…

A Platonic Love Poem He remembers the plot,The characters, the essenceOf every Zane Grey bookHe has ever readSixty or seventy years ago. I cannot recall the plotThe characters, the essenceEven the title, of the bookI read yesterday I am old.Eighty-six next birthdayAnd he is eighty-eight.I can outrun himWell, out walk, I should sayEach of us…

Haiku Pale skies are bluer nowShades of spring setting inBut where, where’s the green! Haiku You and me at CostcoCosto card saves moneyWe buy twice as much! Today’s Haiku Broaden our horizonsBook flights, a car, room, toursToo tired to travel Today’s Haiku “If I get through March…”My brother was born in MarchAnd he died in…

A Platonic Love Poem (prompt) He remembers the plot,The characters, the essenceOf every Zane Grey bookHe has ever readSixty or seventy years ago. I cannot recall the plotThe characters, the essenceEven the title, of the bookI read yesterday I am old.Eighty-six next birthdayAnd he is eighty-eight.I can outrun himWell, out walk, I should sayEach of…

Prayers uttered inAny language, divineCommunication Angel food cake has A hole in the middle andWhite swirls of frosting Silver Blver birch leaves fallBrown and crinkly, acknowledgingUpcoming season Insomniacs unite!Better to not sleep than missThe morning sky at dawn A raven swoops down Lands on a sundrenched snowbank Croaking, “Nevermore!” African violetWater its roots, sunshineBuds pop…

Not sure if FB will let me publish this post? It was on the news tonight that they have come up with a new mor humane method of implementing the death penalty in some US states. The whole concept creeps me out. I remember when the death penalty was removed from the justice system in…