Air on a g string*
Today
The trees are truly
Alive they dance
& sway in their
Private ballet to
A silent music
They turn their
Leaves baring
Their soul & I
Was naked with
Them & younger
Than tomorrow’s
Dream
KE
*J. S. Bach
July 2, 2009
play
baxter crouched, batting
where headless, the fallen bird
provides no more fun
wendy shaffer
business
the tangled mess
of persons & personalities
wronged & ego muck slinging
sit back & smile
at a temper tantrum
a mass of arms & legs & guts
all strung stuck together
& spewing vomitory incriminations
the ego becomes a liability
sometimes through all the declamations
arbitrations exhumations exclamations
an old girl
just wants to write
a poem,
do some rhyming
but then the rent comes due
wendy shaffer
June 20, 2009
saturday morning soaking
raining cats and dogs
but the dogs will not go out
fear of falling cats
klf
June 19, 2009
the killing at helen’s
this morning
a hooded man
bends over a streetcross
arranging flowers
in the solid grey rain
wendy shaffer
