At the Bowl

illustrator: Schachner

snow flakes push cravings

for nitty-gritty munchings

shoulder to shoulder

Brain Grease

illustrator: Hay Rouleaux

Brain Grease

Go back to sleep.

Let the brain grease work.

Like Whitman, Rousseau, and JFK:

From grandfather politics come dreams and youth;

indelible images of Africa,

and a “Song of Myself”.

(see writersalmanac.org/December14,2015)