Coliseum

a scar in th’ earth
where a thumb signal
for life or death
was laud’d
then
in the most civiliz’d
of realms

Mates

how opportune
our former flesh
parch’d
to barren veins
to silent hearts
reshap’d
luster’d
by Nature
by Time
by Mankind
slumbering on
embosom’d
for inquisitive eyes
but together
still

Halloween

Real Me at Poolside—
Other Me at Silver Temple—
Both of Me are beckon’d
by the chanting
of very young Aliens
with very sweet fangs:
“Trick or Treat!”

Gray

my future
has caught up
with me

as the present
obsesses
about the past

some thoughts waned
but kept extant
by the faithful

the true loved ones
who stay in touch
and make me beautiful

Sequoia

proud

stand We firm
upon the graves
of Elders and Brethren

who pray’d and stretch’d
each day
towards Blue Heaven
towards Nightfall’s twinkling eyes

ere their footholds
were drown’d by Rainfall’s bender
or shear’d by bellowing Air

or Time’s final blessing

Night Wand

under a slender moon
waver our dim shadows
till goes breathless
the dark wind
our souls conjoining
to doting sharp silhouette

Nopal Sculpture

she bless’d neighborhood

with beauty and sustenance

till fatigued by time