Long Hunkering Poems

June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago

The conclusion of the American Civil War commenced with the articles of surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at Appomattox Court House,...

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We walked briskly across the traveled path
And stumbled upon something peculiar in the dark
We didn’t stop to look around,
Night was hunkering down upon us and we were
All in a hurry to catch the mid-night bus
It...

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I sit here with sweat dripping from my face wondering what is going on over there; the bell is tolling way over yonder another young man has gone under, big boots and big hats and...

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and me as well,
    through it
       I spring forward
 biting into
        the lushes flesh
in her upper chest
  near...

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June nineteenth one hundred and fifty years ago

Juneteenth hint: three hundred
and sixty six days
after eighteen sixty four.

Major General Gordon Granger
led the Union Soldiers to Galveston, Texas,
to announce the end of the Civil war
and the freedom...

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No sooner than we set foot within said domicile
attestation to so called gentleman’s’ agreement with guile
initially infrequently, but incessantly as time elapsed Isle 
never forget (nor will spouse forgive) with rancor and rile 
ceaselessly besieging,...

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The biscuit is sitting on the plate waiting for a humongous date; the sardine is screaming in the can while she waits for the unfaithful man.
He is out dining and casting lot with a dollar...

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Can You Please Wait A Second...?

In steed of ye
     mounting your stock
key high horse,
     perhaps named Rock
Key, and head off...lock

stock and barrel,
     who...

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I feel my muscles
   cord up with tension ,
  can almost hear them creak
in the strain.
Lumbering over
  I lean in close,
he seems
    on the verge of passing out
face...

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Stark realization, I harbor sacrilegious objection...

Against merry christmas premature blowout,
(or otherwise) ejaculation galore burnout,
hence I feel like the odd man out
neither yours truly, nor the missus
spends money and/or
time at checkout

avoid madding crowds like the plague
elbowing,...

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Under This Azure October Sky

Still cruising here, 
Still hunkering here
under this azure October sky
Still breathing here,
Still suffocating here,
inside this hair dryer which covers my head.
Still surviving here, 
Still perspiring here,
outside, in the mad hot jungle...

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At home, on Amazon, hibernating from pestilence and logic, 
I searched for happiness in contrivances, wastes, and textiles. 
No game, but hunting. I watched my only life sunk
into a Broyhill sofa, sometimes hunkering, sometimes sprawled,...

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 Homeless, destitute with nothing more then a backpack and cigarettes 
down the rabbit hole she went, no linen tablecloths just stricken wood,  
in a house of ill repute;.
She could not refuse the hunkering...

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There were many ingenious things that helped win World War Two.
Jeeps, Higgins Boats and Victory Ships just to name a few.
Other things were vital such as radar, C-rations and wrenches,
But the ungainly steel helmet won...

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Ready or not here he comes
Best you batten down the hatches
Unless you were one of the smart ones to run 
Like a Coon Hound in July chasing rabbits

Alright, alright, alright
As you turn and face the...

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I watched as the clouds gathered overhead,
And the setting sun turned bloody red.

The wind started picking up a might,
Looks like we’re in for a sleepless night.

Tumbleweeds were flying by,
Piling themselves in piles reaching upwards for...

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Dark clouds fill the horizon. 
sweeping through the sky 
like soldiers going to battle,
layers and layers of clouds 
spreading all around hunkering
 in th ground where destiny is bound, 
I can feel the wind chill...

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ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS

Hello Santa! The last time I saw you was thirty eight years ago.
    I sat on your lap, hugged and kissed you and gave it away.
 ...

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The summer of great outdoors 
Has become the winter of discontent. 
Families hunkering down indoors, 
Tring to find various ways to be content.

Damage of economic uncertainty,
I rather have muddy boots to clean.
And reasons to live...

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The snowbird trees are putting on their colorful autumn coats
Preparing to follow the sun southward
The provincial evergreens are hunkering down for winter
All are well groomed in this spiritual oasis

A gently convex (concave if you are...

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In the eyes of a cougar


she purrs like an old kitten
plays with young ones mittens
is of a bigger scale of a cat
loves the bone of young fat

her movements stealth
has good range of health
eyes a moving
for...

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Millennials are spring breaking
boomers are hunkering down
clowns are pointing fingers...again 
no vacancy at the coroners lounge.

Florists and pharma are stacking chips
the panicked are dusting off prayers
the media is tossing frantic to the wind
the governments shutting...

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Tattered pieces of memory
Infect my hollow dreams
The silence forever shattered
With the sounds of distant screams

My home, almost forgotten
As my family fades away
They crumble with the sands of time
A little more each day

Awakened by the thunder
Again,...

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Autumn Begins

I stand on my porch 
eyes raised into a pallid sky
like Greer Garson on the Cliffs of Dover
watching her lover's Spitfire cross the channel.
  
Geese gather in the bay.
Daily practice formations vee over...

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… is a drunkard
Swilling vintage regret,
Tears falling for undared dreams, 
Anger spewing over unrequited love.

… is endless replays of yesterdays
With circular insightful wisdom 
As likely to reverse life’s ills
As scrubbing dirt off hills.

… is stolen...

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