CCMBA

Columbia County Mountain Bike Alliance

(designed by mother and son in tandem)

Mother and son don their baseball hats

Who says every hat

brings a bad hair day? Mothers’

hair springs eternal!

Stitches

illustrated by Alexander Jasins

James Wright
The girls let stitches out, dress after dress,
To free some swinging body’s riding space
And form the new child’s unimagined face.

from his poem: “Complaint”

Definition #201 Facebook Portrait

Roxy Epoxy’s Portrait

Facebook allows easy

posts, likes, timelines, friending, texts,

showmanship sublime!

Definition #201 Sticking out my tongue

Annika celebrates her tricks on a two-wheeler:
so do Owen and Oliver

balance and speed and

steering and braking and weaves

 ‘tween brother and dad

it appears that tongue protrusion when concentrating is hard-wired into our nervous systems. It is an entirely benign condition of those who are focusing their attention.

Einstein’s tongue

Definition #201 Pregnant

Owen and Emily are pregnant with Oliver
to arrive on
February 9, 2011

Papa protecting

Mama protecting baby

boy from Heaven’s grace!

Definition #200 Grapes on the Vine

Michael, Aneli, Diane,Quenby, Don, Jeanne, Owen, Emily
2007

stronger than water

is blood: grapes on the vine: flow

to be fine red wine!

Definition #198 Piglet

fed that Piglet some cabbage
by Jeanne Poland

fed her some cabbage;

she broke into song: chanted

Gregorian thanks!

Definition 197 Table of Contents

April Prompts
Pushed Poems
for Poetry Month
2015

searched revelations

stack-up-thirty-days-high-nigh

table of contents

Definition #196 Human

Fit Feet to Pedals, Seats and Spokes

humans mimic love-

ancestors; trust pathfinders;

evolve, choose, improve.

Definition #195 Simplicity

From my face to Annika’s
2015

Quatern

Make the complex simple

awesomely simple;

that’s creativity!

translucent diadems.

Charles Mingus

Thoughts too weak:

make the complex simple;

empty them, start again:

they’re beyond cognition.

Luc de Claplers

Try for plainness

selflessness:

make the complex simple

polished core revealed.

Lao-Tsu

Birdsong, sky and weather:

luminous and spare;

look through them to see the world;

make the complex simple!

Stanley Kunitz