Moods & Foods

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100110

HAPPY MEAL

- Milk
- Bread
- P.B.
- Jelly

Such a friendly way
to fill a belly!


100109

CLICKETY CLACK

I got off track.

Somewhere back, I got off track.
Now I roam alone—alak!—
except for dog and stick and sack.

I make my home in any shack
and then move on, but never back.
Somewhere back, I got off track


100108

ICY HOT

It’s cold enough
without those icy blasts
whistled in
by various western winds
through various western windows.

Our log-home interior
stratifies by degrees;
to descend the stairs
is to descend the thermometer.

The cats beg for outdoor excursions,
but when offered an open door
they freeze mid-departure
and scramble back inside.

Human interactions
take an occasional chilly plunge,
paradoxically threatening conflagration.
This is the only sense in which
our cabin has a fever.


100107

MIXED BREW

Here’s the news,
fresh and hot—
tea plus coffee
does not equal toffee.


100106

EMPTY MIND

fingers and thoughts
suspended
over keyboard


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