black escalade stuck – February 26

Posted on February 27, 2014 by landl30

2.26.2014

black escalade stuck

in the snowbank

 

bleach blond driver

tight on her cell

 

when you’re going

sideways

 

four-wheel drive

don’t mean nothin’

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sowing friendship – February 24

Posted on February 25, 2014 by landl30

2.24.2014

taking a day to talk,

walking the way to

friendship

 

listening instead of

telling, gathering as

sowing.

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celtic bangles – February 23

Posted on February 24, 2014 by landl30

2.23.2014

celtic bangles plaited

through their intricate

meanings

 

of lives and gods woven

together, into the tapestry

of creation.

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a dozen deer – February 22

Posted on February 23, 2014 by landl30

2.22.2014

a dozen deer leap across

the road, through two foot

snow, to disappear down

the hill and on out across

the length of the frozen

lake.

 

sheer joy. in numbers,

grace, frivolity, solidarity,

natural flow of family.

brothers, sisters, aunts

uncles. whatever.

 

do they think of it as we,

or does their attention

raise to some different

calling.

 

the great elk that summons,

enobles, lightens their

load, sharpens their

instincts, warms through

the shudder of their silken

flanks.

 

for each a life and a life

force. voices of the One.

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serious snow – February 20

Posted on February 21, 2014 by landl30

2.20.2014

serious snow, not fooling

around. branches touching

down to the ground.

 

serious blowing, wind downing

trees, time to stay home

and say pretty-please.

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slaughter weight – February 19

Posted on February 20, 2014 by landl30

2.19.2014

watching steps and tastes

taking care to enjoy yet

not overindulge

 

so simple to say, so

long unworked, the

years adding

 

pounds to inches to

sighs and persistence

of thighs

 

until the scales and

pain say slaughter

weight

 

and the prospect is

all too clear for

piggies

 

and bacon is not on

ones own menu for

a future

 

nor the heart attack,

back attack, pain attacks

track.

 

so step away from the

counter, put down the

greasy spoon

 

better to have snarfed

and lost than to become

the snarfee.

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whiteout winds – February 18

Posted on February 19, 2014 by landl30

2.18

whiteout winds cross the

highway, ice track grooves

twist tires, treachery by

nature limning what we

can do whether we know it

or not.

 

cars strew backwards, slide

swipe, fling wide into the

drifts by centrifugal forces

that four-wheels into drive

scatter

on moving sideways.

 

so carelessly we assume

we can handle it all, as if

explorers of profound

power, rather than

lillies of our own valley

gone to seed.

 

caution, caution, step lightly

little tiger, lest biting things

arise

to put you in your place

as a puppetized player.

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deep frozen fields – February 17

Posted on February 18, 2014 by landl30

2.17

dry cracked deep frozen fields

wait for snow that may never

come to save them

at least not in time

 

I wait in my hotel room to watch

my son sing a song of sixpence

while the crows flee the fields

for warmer clime’s and mothers

mourn the distance.

 

it is a hard world where crunch

dried clots of earth can take

a farmer to weeping, and grace

appears oddly without asking.

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tasting heaven – February 16

Posted on February 17, 2014 by landl30

2.16.2014

kitchen smells, toasting

oats, oils, sugars, sweet

nuts

 

grandmother kitchen

aromas, cookies and

kuchen

 

a small child licking

fingers of buttered

sugar

 

small doses that tell

you heaven is real.

you can taste it.

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whiz bang – February 15

Posted on February 16, 2014 by landl30

2.15.2104

diamonds, clubs, the cards

keep coming in a maze of

points and response bids

 

blessedly the game is

about more than getting

it right

 

at least that’s what they

tell me. fresh pigeon is

always on the menu.

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