Definition #398 Rabbit and Goose

illustration by Zafouko  Yamamoto

white on white rabbit

goose ambling by-winter sights

too white to spy-fly!

Definition#397: Epoxy

Who’s that leaping up?

fingers laughing, roxy e-

poxy rock star girl!

396 Common

Nothing in Common

by Freya Manfred

Sometimes I feel I have nothing in common with anyone.
I shamble through the day, dragging my knuckles in the grass,
and each new hour with each new person is a cliff I can’t climb —

yet I know I’m alive now — inside a song as deep as forever,
that stretches to the infinite future and the bottomless past,
connecting every place I’ve lived or nearly died —

and I shouldn’t worry so much about losing what’s most precious,
my simian balance, shaggy fur, bold fleas,
my plentiful fingers and opposable thumbs,

and my curious, glowing, ape-like eyes that still shine
with radiant chaos, wondrous animal calm,
and so much love, for everyone

Yesterday my son brought the grand kids to visit, and the Labrador grand dog, Camden. She slept on her dog embroided lamb skin, ate cookies and food, drank from her personal dish, and had toilet time outside. Knew she was loved and, despite painful arthritis, kept beside me all day, faithful to Nana.

#395 Mosquito Nose

You think it’s to bite;

But smelling blood sugar’s right

where I go: Bravo!

Definition #394 Mom and Pop

                                    illustrator: Marcin Piwowarski

the web is not your mother-

the internet your Pop;

the apps do not command you-

and beep until you drop!

the web is just a widow

programmer left behind-

in truth you are the wizard

of all in-put and kind!

Definition #393Finches

grateful to finches

who morph with the seeds-merge with

the birds in the bush

Jonathan Weiner

won a Pulitzer Prize for his book The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1986)

Definition #392 Black and White

skin tone glows with soul

religion speaks-sings from soul

home is birth of soul

soul is relative to light

Definition #391 Golden Light

Gold drips, tipsy topped

on beam on seam on dream–seems

emblazoned luster.

When Catskill’s Blue

When Catskill’s blue

I think of you:

How cool you get

In panic’s net.

Your face a grin

Your twinkling eye-

The spark that lights

My earth and sky!

Definition #390 Father and Son

Psalm 24

1 The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 Ethan shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob.
7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
10 Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.