Funeral Animal Poems

Central Park pigeons were concerned about Walter M. Leed.
He usually brought them seed, nuts, and other wonderful feed.
They conversed among themselves and formed a delegation.
Flew...

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I spied a valley low
Across the road from the cemetery
A Columbus monkey swinging by
The trees of the valley
Stood tall and forlorn
Observing the crematorium
Covered in light...

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There once was a piano that wanted to be
Anything other than of white, black keys
She loved her parents and her fabulous family
But she lacked love...

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Statistics, ciphering and accounts are copied and transcribed
                 from...

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in the surreal solemnity of nature

	a solemn ant colony
	passes in a funeral-like
	procession
	carrying bits of crumbs
	and one of their own…

	a lone ballooning spider
	ceases his kiting
	and hovers...

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I
Last week, funeral
You heard Nature reviled here
But Neem Tree gave life

II
This week, two new pets
Chicken Little, who comes in nights --
Angel, power-lady dog, outside...

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El ritmo de mi corazon 
Follows the beat of the music that hums in the town 
La musica of regeton and salsa
Flows through the wind...

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Wings black as midnight draw back 
from infernos façade 
Secret devices sharp, 
keen of talons and man-made MAW 
EYES; Scarlet, pumpkin fire orange at the...

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My cat never cared, 
was never bothered, never scared. 
Till that is, when one day, 
beside the cats litter tray, 
another bowl lay beside, 
In...

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Last night, Libby, 
I dreamed you brought my little dog Okuni 
to visit me for a little while. 
Thank you. I'm hoping dreams are real....

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There are no words from poetry to purify the 
heart, can’t rock the mic with headache, the irony
of it all, its the beauty from women...

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I badly fear feuding cattle,
Vexed into a ferocious battle;
An endless shudder at the goring horn
To them granted when they were born.

I could imprison the defecating...

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“This is quite a picture,” Uncle Theodore remarked. “It shows them in their Hudson…with that little dog they had. 
Abbie says that you and Vernon...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Athenian Epitaphs II

These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...

Now his voice is prisoned in the silent...

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