Retirement Reflection

My father retires;

They laud his integrity,

Hard work, and humor.

Post-modern Dance

Post-modern dancer,

Arms make arrhythmic gestures,

Motion-censor lights.

 

Souvenir

Patch below the knee,

Still just a numb sensation:

Car crash souvenir.

Showman

Man with trout duffel

Appears each Obamajam,

Showboats, loves the crowd.

Bus Pundits

Commuter pundits,

Speaking with authority

Unfounded but sure.

Stripped

Good poetry is—

When it's completely honest —

Public nudity.

Grandma Magdalena

Embroidery floss,

Stitching; My hands inhabit

Lost grandmother's world.

Acceptance

White hair?  Pluck!  Two more:

Pluck, pluck.  Too many to pluck...

Dart of gorgeous gray.

Award-Winning

Born over-thinker,

Gold-medal mental gymnast:

Always on duty.

Lived Reality

Plane flight. Career change.

Swiftly, reality shifts;

Future yet unsure.

Inked

Beautiful script inked

In prose descending her spine,

Denouement obscured.

Muscled Square

Muscle-bound in scrubs,

Square, he walks, arms lifted out

As if inflated.

Vivaldi

Vivaldi in church,

Organ, violin, voices

Redirect thoughts: peace.

Nature Clichés

Computer, staring.

Visualize nature clichés

'Bout impending change.

Mental Loop

Man with mental loop

Laughs as he repeats mantra.

Dear, cheerful stranger.

Blaring, Blaring, Blaring

Next-door daycare, hark!

Fire alarm blaring two hours.

No fire, sanity.