Saturday, April 4, 2015

Cedar Drive











Refuge





Woodstock Chimes
above the belly
of a palm, where coconuts lounge
beneath a fan of fronds,
that hum
at a bulging
breast of papaya bursting
green and discover this lush valley
behind the tilapia stream.

Then note
the red cardinal’s tweet
as it excretes a tomato seed
on an orange bromeliad leaf
beside a greedy centipede.


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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Emptying the Puddles-A nod to "Get Smart"



Secret agents like
Maxwell Smart and Agent 99
sometimes do reconnaissance in Hawaii
for CONTROL, a counter-intelligence agency based in Washington, D.C.
created to thwart the evil KAOS
and to release the constant pressure
of  trying to save the planet.

Today’s mission
should we choose to accept it
will be to empty the puddles.

It will take all day since it is still raining.
Max has donned a special pair of
cell phone galoshes in case he gets in over his head.

Brisk trade winds press against me
as I step out into the chill  sixty degree air.
I am assigned to assist him
and am disguised in a striped green trench coat
yellow swim cap and khaki galoshes.

Max and I are intent on the goal
as we both jump into the first puddle.

Slosh, twerk, and slosh,
Slosh, twerk, and slosh.
Katoosh, I slide on my tushie into a red-orange bromeliad
my rubber galoshes now sailing into the stratosphere.
The chief watches from above
nods his head and remarks
no one said it would be easy Agent 99
as Max nose-dives into a potted dendrobium.

And so it goes.

Suck up and retreat
Suck up and retreat
until the chief tells us to dry off
persuading Max to drag his weary
secret agent butt inside
marching us both up to a bubbling hot tub
where we can take a breather 
and spy on the neighbor’s cats.








Saturday, January 24, 2015

Poems of The Super Moon

My poem,"Super Moon" has been accepted for inclusion in the Pen Women Press anthology, Poems of the Super Moon.
To purchase an advance copy: click on the this link: http://www.nlapw.org/bookstore/ and scroll down to Poems of The Super Moon. Thank-you for supporting the National League of American Pen Women.



Black Creek Preserve- A Scenic Hudson Park

Black Creek is a mixture of woods and wetlands conserved by Scenic Hudson and the John Burroughs Nature Sanctuary.  It is a popular destination for bird watching, fishing and paddling.
The property lies within the Plutarch/Black Creek Wetlands Complex in Esopus, New York and is a prime area for breeding and migrating waterfowl.  Safeguarded wetlands trap run-off and remove pollutants before they reach drinking-water supplies. They also mitigate ecological and property damage from sea-level rises and storm surges under predicted climate-change scenarios.
Black Creek is a  part of Scenic Hudson's collaborative campaign to Save the Land That Matters Most, protecting 65,000 acres.













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