flowing over stone
around uprooted trees flowing
carrying keepsakes
Cruise ships appear over the horizon
As white
As the crest of tidal waves
Surging to harbor
No I said
To hell with cruise ships
To ride inside a machine
My wife and I
Prefer
To sit beside
The purr of ocean with opened books
Sun on our shoulders all day
A mom in a string bikini
Wrestling her morning pre-teen by his neck
With applied sunscreen
At low tide
I walk half a mile out to sea
On my knees
My wife watches me
A Royal Tern with a black tuft atop his head
Pesters a female until she is exhausted
Or that annoyed
She looks him in the eye
Then lifts her legs
And flies
As fast as her wings will carry her
Straight out to sea
And as far as I can see
She never turns around or looks back
But he pursues
Blind to her wake
He will follow
Over metal ships and the flesh of the horizon
Over the humpbacks of the spouting waves
He will follow her to where the sun and moon
Are born each day
He will follow
To that round shore of the tired spent and nests
Until she rests
And turns to him
Come my love come with me
Let us be one with the sea.
And their biggest star was a white boy named
A Quiet Field in Autumn stood —
Unrumored — and unknown —
Till Sudden Thunder split the Sky
Where modest Seeds were sown —
The Mighty Wind from tropic Seas
Came roaring — proud — and Warm —
Yet met a Chill from Prairie Air
And faltered — in its Storm —
No Laurel Crown announced the Lad —
No Herald spoke his Fame —
A freckled Flash — from Nowhere sprung —
And set the Night aflame —
The Giants stared — the Crowd drew Breath —
The Tempest lost its Claim —
For Glory loves the Hidden Path —
And seldom signs its Name —
Miami International Airport
has something most airports do not
they have trained therapy dogs
ready for hugs and cuddles
I am unsure how I can find one
but if I get to Miami, I will be looking for one.
Miami Mall is rocking with aliens from star planets galore.
The worst thing is they are not buying anything from a store.
They are hypnotizing the salespeople and getting stuff free.
Items are leaving the mall faster than a grand prix shopping spree.
Someone who was watching what was happening averted his eyes.
He got on his phone and he dialed the Miami Dade policemen guys.
By the time they arrived the aliens had stolen billions of things.
Including several trays full of jewelry – emeralds and gold diamond rings.
The policemen came running in all confident, some in a huff.
They were hypnotized right away, and stopped acting so tough.
I decided to join the aliens and got myself a new blouse and chair.
Feeling pretty confident as I left with my loot, walking out into night air.
bankside ice crusted
water slowly flows downward
steam rises upwards
Jupiter and Venus meld like two canaries
Kissing in late February
In a black gap
Between mountainous sparkling beach hotels
As if
The planets have privacy in their own city alley
Sand in Miami
Warm as peach pie beneath our bare feet
A beach just for us
Bob and Kerri
What cosmic gale
Blew these names to our lunar sails?
The froth from ocean waves
Breaks
Like ghostly surfers of dull light
Riding the brink of non-existence
Swoosh and retreat
At the broken ankles of us
Silhouettes
Hobbling past prints in the mud
Sunny Isle Pier flinging her jeweled harpoon
To the starfish abyss
While we are gone
Our boys drive from Lansing to Denver
Forever-
More
They call from the highway and say they’ve discovered
Dark Side of the Moon
On the Plains in a blizzard of pebbles and stones
Try it, I say, while you watch The Wizard of Oz
Then you’ll understand the coming and going
Of our Universe
And all its tricks of sound and vision
Kerri
Pulls my face to her lips
Whispers, Kiss me
While we have this chance by the sea
Tomorrow
The two of us return home
To the zodiac space of our empty house.
we heard that sammy
had a mother called mammy
won grammy in miami
button and button
after we had gone hunting
who has the button
we started to search
in a place where he would perch
on bench made of birch
were with many fears
they even had bought some steers
after rounds of beers
money disappears
when their twilight nears
in hock up to ears
you should see long spears
they did use to kill a deer
poor at changing gears
How Winter Goes
David J Walker
This is how the winter goes
North wind blows
Runny nose
Nothing grows
Highs are lows
While
The old folks
Endlessly
double-bundle
fighting off the cold
swearing next winter
will be different
Spent in Miami
Spent in bundles in
The jungles of a
Florida swamp
Calling my sister
Asking her to text me
Mothers Recipe
For Sweet Cornbread
Mother would
except she’s dead
Tonight we will have
A hot bowl
Of beef stew and
Celebrate her Life
She would have been 102
This is how the winter goes
No one knows
Where time goes
Once and done
the setting sun
in early afternoon
A day before our getaway to Miami
We got out the blue suitcase
And as it sat in our bedroom
Getting ready for spring break
Our golden retriever
Ever vigilante
Would not leave its side
Day or night
To go outside eat or drink
No
He could not risk being left behind
Thought it was summer
Going to the lake.
A big man
Stands
Roasted pink on the ocean beach
Unleashing his gut over his bathing suit
Holding a can of Miller Lite
Surely a used car salesman in real life
Shows off
In front of a group of friends
Lifts his free hand like the Statute of Liberty
To a flock of hungry seagulls
That swoop to his pinched fingers
He laughs and laughs
“Those dumb birds! Look at me training them!"
Shouting so loud
That all the beach sunbathers look up
Aroused
But the witty birds catch on quickly
Settle back to pecking the sand.
Annoyed
He bends down and rips open a bag of chips
Returns to his gross pose
Whistles like a Robin (I don’t know why)
And the gulls rise again
Snatching one chip after the other
Squawking fighting
He can’t help himself
Amidst the maelstrom of wings
But feed them the whole bag.
He loves it!
But with his friends still cheering him on
His wife casually smiles
And snaps her own two fingers
For him
To please please sit down.
At Miami mall
People eat at the food court
Enjoying their meal
While half the mall is closed
And the anchors waste
City of Vices
Beaches Daisy Dukes and Sunshine
Dirty Cops and Palm Trees
By Great Dae
In Miami we have beaches that shimmer like a jewel.
The sun beautifully shines,
and when it's reflection hits the waters
the beach brightens like gold in a mine.
Palm trees decorate our streets.
Flowers bloom throughout the year.
In winter, spring, summer and fall
we know that flowers will be here.
We have buildings that are new,
and we have buildings that are old.
Architecture that is simple,
and architecture that is bold.
We've got many fruits available,
some whose names you may not know.
The varieties vary
like the colors of a rainbow.
At the end of the day
Miami is a great place to live,
but I'm not sure you can take my word for it
because I can't be objective.
attacked
not by shark
nor by jellyfish
feeling the sting of seaweed
8/9/2019
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