“Present Plumbing Problems” Tanka 6447

(April 13, 2024)f

running from both ends

an over-athletic nose

and pinch-hosed ‘Richard’

nozzle-end fine but pee-dammed

at the off-site reservoir

“Present Plumbing Problems” Tanka 6447

(April 13, 2024)

running from both ends

an over-athletic nose

and pinch-hosed ‘Richard’

nozzle-end fine but pee-dammed

at the off-site reservoir

Too (or just ‘to’) Close

(March 26, 2024)

world presses too close

or is it just want to close

Take Deion Sanders’ “Both!”

“There Are Several Lessons Here”

reach for a dropped can

off an everglades-side dock?

instant “lefty” now!

“Come Pee On Me (and my garden)!”

Bustin’ up some big

cumulonimbus above:

come pee on my yard!

“I Just Do-The-Math” Tanka 192

When it used to take

six hours, six days or six weeks

to heal, I was game:

six months? Well…all right, I’ll go.

But now? Six years? I will shoot!

“Counting Chickens? Check Eggs!”

Is the thaw in me

reflected by my world view

or does the view, me?

“A Little Low Light Reading”

Reading Joe Campbell

Myths To Live By during break,

with peanuts and beer.