06.30.2011

I'm gaining on her
she speeds up so I can't pass

people are funny

06.29.2011

I dreamt… I didn’t

no sleeping, no sweet dreaming

woe for the long night

06.28.2011

I dreamt of searching
seeking but never finding
I woke exhausted

06.27.2011

I dreamt of running

steady, easy, legs moved with

the rhythm of joy

06.26.2011

tornado dream rips

me from my sleep with a gasp

disoriented

06.25.2011

welcome sun melting

the deep damp chill in my bones.

real summer at last?

06.24.2011

time is chasing me

calls not made, things left undone

unproductive day

06.23.2011

another gloomy

day in this odd spring; solstice

fails to bring summer

06.22.2011

perfume of wet leaves,

wet grass, and wet earth carried

on a cool wet breeze

06.21.2011

the lake has vanished
the world has shrunk to a few

square blocks, lost in fog

06.20.2011

a midwest monsoon

sweeps through, drenching everyone

umbrellas useless

06.19.2011

low clouds massed on the

horizon look like mountains
blue shadows, white peaks

06.18.2011

verse, lights, sky, and trees

old story, a fresh telling

Shakespeare in the park

06.17.2011

sunlight streams between

cloud and lake, sky and water,

the heavens and earth

bonus haiku for bloomsday

stephen and leo

24 hours in dublin

work of pure genius

06.16.2011

rain gone, bright white clouds
dazzle my eyes and help to

brighten my outlook

06.15.2011

running late… again.

snarf down breakfast, skim the news,

dash to catch the bus!

getting up on time

would be so much easier,

but less exciting.

06.14.2011

sometimes on purpose,

sometimes it’s just who I am,

I am annoying.

06.13.2011

parents hovering.

do it for them, they can’t learn.

time to let them fly.

06.12.2011

moon peeking between

fingers of cloud, bashfully

smiling down on me.

06.11.2011

rhinoviruses

are very tiny, yet a

big pain in my ass.

06.10.2011

at the hotel bar,

too loud laughter and a thick

haze of Aramis

06.09.2011

the inside of my

head is itchy.  the onset

of a summer cold.

06.08.2011

luscious heady scent

tiny white bells, bright green stems

lily of the vale

06.07.2011

so hot and humid,

like trying to breathe pudding.

thank God for AC!

06.06.2011

fat drops of rain splat

on my back, shoulders; I get

indoors just in time.

06.05.2011

waiting in the dark

murmured conversations fade

as the film begins

06.04.2011

mind awake, but not.

want to sleep, but can’t.  trapped in

unwanted waking.

06.03.2011

“what is more fun than

dabbling in the human brain?”

best quote of the day.

(thank you, katie!)

06.02.2011

“Resurrection” for

a foretaste of eternal

ineffable joy

06.01.2011

jonesin’ for a big

juicy burger with mayo,

ketchup, raw onion

and fries, too – gotta

have the fries.  just like Pavlov’s

dogs, I salivate

(yummmmm…)