Miami Poems

airport therapy dogs in Miami

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 Dade Police Aided Me

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

miami river

bankside ice crusted 
water slowly flows downward 
steam rises upwards

It Is Snowing In Florida

It's snowing in Tallahassee
It's very cold in Miami
It's very slippery under the palm trees
And it's very cool in Haiti.

It's snowing heavily in Florida
All the streets are vacated and empty
The coconut trees are coated with snow
We are almost in a state of siege.

It's snowing in Tallahassee
We are worried in Miami
Everyone is sick and cold
But they say

Kiss of the Planets

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

Sammy Has Mammy Living In Miami

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

How Winter Goes

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

Spring Break I - Loyal Dog

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.

Spring Break Ii - On Our Way

Before my wife and I
Broke out of our shell
For spring break in Miami
Just the two of us on our first vacation in 30 years

All our kids wished us well
Though I detected an ache in their voices
“Next time!” one of my boys said in a farewell text

Next time, I said to myself
I’d love that, a next

Spring Break Iii - Finding Ourselves In a New Place

I brush back
Her wave of turquoise hair
She winces but doesn’t yet
Pull back
From the salt in her wounds
And the sand on her hips

From the laughing seagulls snatching
Last night’s scrap of words
Leftover
From the plates and lips
Of Sunny Isles Pier

Our winter was very dark and very long
So far away from here

Who am I to make such a presumption?
To

Spring Break V - Russians On Miami Beach

I.

The Fish Crow is an outcast amongst the seagulls
Standing on the hot Miami sand
At the end
Of our rose-colored beach towel

Nodding and blabbing half-heartedly
Nuh-uh nuh-uh
To the lack of crumbs

From us
The stingy blue collar visitors
From freezing old gray Michigan

We’re so out of place
Down here
As pale as if we were skinless

Wandering like ghosts among this feast
Of color and

Spring Break Vi - Spectacular Miami Dinner

By day six I was antsy
Stayed in my room all morning

I knew this would happen

While the glass-shatter of the ocean waves
And yelps of surprise from scores of little kids
Drifted in
Through my opened balcony doors
From the beach below

Made the mistake of paying attention to my phone
And the more I did
It seemed
The more emails dinged
Like an elevator

Spring Break Vii - Ocean Flowers

The former blond model pouts and primps
Swinging her hips
Down the splashing catwalk of shoreline
Sand caving to her imagined heels

Wheeling to her awaiting Israeli mogul
Her shoulders set so far back
It’s as if she’s walking backwards

Puts herself square
Between
Him
And another thin woman
Launches a laugh and offers salted peaches

Wraps her skinny arm around
The other woman’s string bikini of waist
Holds

Spring Break Viii - Birdbrain Training

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

Miami Mall

At Miami mall
People eat at the food court 
Enjoying their meal
While half the mall is closed
And the anchors waste

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