September 18, 2016

first autumn sunday










drizzle caught
in a spider's
net. berries
dangle beneath
belly soft sky.
shine struggles
in its missed place.





September 12, 2016

Poem for the fallen (Dedicated to Fallon Smart)









sitting at a cafe's sidewalk table
sunday afternoon, black irish tea
and a chocolate chip cookie, late
summer sun palms the right side of
my face, my cheek.
traffic crawls past the median's
memorial for the fallen
girl who tried to cross
the too wide and impatient
street, anthology of
Italian women poets
lays open on my lap
as a tawny young butterfly
alights
upon its sunkissed page.








http://bikeportland.org/2016/08/26/a-life-lost-too-soon-photos-from-the-fallon-smart-memorial-ride-190481