Goals

distinguished, for once
(if only one category)
better than nothing

Frizz

group work quagmire
 with May rains slithering in
 wears out my Wednesday
 
 
 

Listen Here: Let Me Be Clear

midnight healthcare scare
 makes my family more aware
 of options made fair
 
 don’t take this away
 or the Democrats will sway
 each bill you will play
 
 cause love deserves life
 not this plagued financial strife
 that cuts like a knife
 
 Kimmel speaks of teams
 cause we’re ripping at the seams
 for your twisted dreams
 
 for you, one last word
 you selfish billionaire turd:
 our needs will be heard
 

Fourth Quarter

writing exhausts me
when May deadlines plague us all
please graduate, loves

Let’s Hope

Yellow tulips wait
 Inside the window for now
 Soon, the snow will melt
 
 
 

Snow March

because we need this:
 desertification looms
 just beyond the bend
 
 (Trump looms there as well,
 where the ninety-degree March
 made some record highs)
 
 and so? a snow march
 to keep precipitation
 where it belongs: Earth
 

Thirty Years Later…

Shakespeare’s Juliet
 with a ten-year-old’s line twist
 and a handmade dress
 

Monday Winner

two demolished pies
 (no remnants of rhubarb left),
 calm after wreckage
 
 brownies gone as well,
 insurance claim filed late,
 soaked cedar salmon
 
 all the joys, sorrows
 that can fit into a day
 have made this Monday
 

Birthday Puppy

a little piggy
 makes for a nice birthday gift
 (for a day at least)
 

Blossoms of Hope

without scientists,
 our flowers would be metal:
 cold-hearted color
 


instead, spring rises
 tulips bloom, aspens bud out,
 rain visits Denver
 


we march for science
 for all that we know is right
 (for real flowers)