Short Malamute Poems

Big Blue, my Alaskan Malamute greeted my friend with a wide tail wag.
He ran back to the car, rolled down the window and yelled “Is this a gag?”
Are you afraid of dogs? I asked. I did not know that about you.
No, but I am afraid of whatever that thing is, he said, indicating Big Blue....

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Somnambulist’s Awakening


the malamute ceiling flying in my hearing
buzzes my acrid thoughts with the climaxed annoyance 
when the shadowy light lifted in the nightmare

Einstein in Grayling jumps into nothingness
tasting his own fear
“Relativity, my dear Watson” he mumbles
he touches it touching me.

the Everest with obsidian face calls
“For ever, ever, never.”
is the relativity of tomorrow
and the numbers are shredding in mirror formation
without meaning for today....

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