Yankee

Yankee Revisited
7-25-18

Bashed by Boston Globe
I miss her for sheer good writing and the stars that heal
For you see more than I
O, great Yankee as the Word burns inside
But not for pride and red tail lights in Chattanoolf Times
With marvelous ear entreat me and I will not leave thee
Of all uncanny sense of our West Coast Review
It hath been fully shewed to me our sense of irony
By our prayers over breakfast
Althea is dynamic
O, great Yankee my new America....





For Dusty
7-25-18

O, mentor plume meridians
Loving it in its first printing
So much joy in this life that we choose on our Castle Tree
Groweth fruit all for this arrangement
Paying sixty-four grand on plastic and paper
All for the question
I lift my hand beside thee greeting McCarth on the evening when Jed is born again
Since looking out for number one three more books purchased for covers alone
I coin a phrase or two or three
Taking up Dusty Richards for our dead aim resurrected
In baseball stars lives of all bounty.....






Humidity Control
7-25-18

where nights are long and days are lonely
Be more apt to listen than to speak
On this treacherous trail all for snail mail
Of liberty with such an inscription greeting O'Malley
Stepping on sidewalk cracks for good luck today more fortunate
Our living under red bricks at the base of the hill
And so saith Naomi so it is the embroidered on weeping beaches
We find it anew as to plant a tree that works for Emily
Upriver.....





Downriver
7-25-18

Downriver often obscured by smog
Given the benefit of Bayou and Bog
Putting our Tatreaux up for sale
O, mountain be not hidden and go where one is bidden
Turned into topsoil in forgetting valleys
It would be wise to make seven more tallies
According to our Scottish-Irish bards for business cards
Our love will chase the trouble away
All for strange sea creatures that had bled and fought
As to be led and taught on the shoals
All for neuroplasticity where sometimes God does not make sense
For pretense upon slopes....