Fall and Nothing

Fall and Nothing

Far from you

my job is to fix the

legal errors

of the blameless innocent exacerbated by

the never to be tried guilty

words and lines of

ink on paper more

real than things

All along people believe

still

in their system or

they don’t it doesn’t matter if

you care or

if you voted when

Fall means fallen but

then you

Get out of bed and

Put on your clothes and

Face the day.

Fifth of July

Late afternoon
mid Obama's
second term

two women each
across the
street from each

other the Persian says
"asshole" the
Korean "was that

necessary" through the
blue smoke cloud
surrounding all

of this following
bang! barrupt! crack!
for three

solid minutes using up
leftover fireworks
ballcap on backwards

Old Oak

Dark green moss and
grey lichen
adorn the branches
above a slow

river bend just below
the inn's balcony
<symbiotic growths
both> much

younger than the
curvy white oak
bending like
ancient script --

pointy leaves
spreading into a
canopy to
catch the sun --

its shadow protects
Marionberry vines
and bugs for the
birds to eat

and I must say perhaps too
gives us great shade
while keeping the
wading water cool.