Sweet iris
Sweet iris, three blooms: /
birth wrapped, life unfurled, death gnarled. /
Three phases, one root.
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Nimbus
Ice crystal contrail; /
jet cruises several miles up: /
all souls nimbused.
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Oh, Geezerdom
Oh, geezerdom; oh, geezerdom,
When will the angels come?
Will the come in a van
Like a Wal-Mart clan.
Playing games in the parking lot
With the souls they have got?
Or will they come in a box
A mix that Betty Crocker talks
You through how to bake
Take the ingredients and shake
Them all together to make
Food for the angels’ sakes?
Oh, geezerdom; oh, geezerdom
When will the angels come?
I’m not sure that I know
If I’m yet ready to go
To rise fast of sink slow
To wherever the afterlife might exist.
Am I on the heavenly list?
Am I an ingredient
In a cake expedient
To be lifted to heaven to come
Or left as parking lot crumbs.
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May
Face to the May sun; /
morning with petals outstretch. /
May you see it, too.
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Recipe
Recipe and hands, /
ingredients and oven, /
turn time into bread.
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On the road
On the road to spring, /
the iris and the rose met /
after a May rain.
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Oh, Dot
Oh, Dot, you left me /
amongst wet Iris mourners: /
rust and memories.
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Shade
Both born and reborn, /
spring trees offer shade to all /
beneath their branches.
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Evening
Iris veins and beards /
shine in sunlight’s last fingers. /
Evening’s dark heart blooms.
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