Today's News

Things break and fall
The air is clean and sharp-scented
Of Broken pine
Love is a serious mental illness
Plato said
A two-foot garter snake
Beige ribbons on green
Has finally appeared
And disappeared
A girl in China
Has lost her legs
And gained a chance at survival
Because of photos, recordings, video
Poignancy is at a record high
On the planet
as people grow wistful
about events their ancestors
would have lived and forgotten
or never have known at all
Lightning marks the end of night
Thunder cracks the sky
and Gleaming wet branches
Carpet the earth and pavement
Guitar notes run
a rainwater stream
Beyond the wall
Not recorded
sweet without bitter
Once only now the only performance
The air is clean and sharp-scented
of Rain-washed arpeggios
of music
from a Traveller's hands
tugging strings