—Poetry and Photos by Ronald Lee Haycock, Antioch, CA
WHOA! BETIDE
Lonesome ladder years
We fall up
We get down
No elephants are harmed
So much depends
Put that in your
Little red wagon
And smoke it
There are wind horses
And then some
Lonesome ladder years
We fall up
We get down
No elephants are harmed
So much depends
Put that in your
Little red wagon
And smoke it
There are wind horses
And then some
Pixilated
NOTWITHSTANDING
Notwithstanding
what I said
when I was seventeen
I never really wanted to know
All of this stuff
There came
a point or two perhaps
I must have missed
I might have said
Enough is enough
INDRA’S NETWORK
Janet Plantagenet
knows not the net weight
of her nettles
and her castanets
I sprayed snowstorms of Mom’s Aquanet on
my head when I was chasing the fishnets
Of the clarinetist, the cabinet member and
that martinet’s
empty bassinet I have said
all that I am going to say
just because
because there is a boy
and a sky
and a moon
and a cloud
and a star
and a dawn
and a breeze
and a mockingbird singing
why just doesn't much matter
WAREHOUSE FULL OF GHOSTS
Nothing to rely on but
a bleeding heart
a flowering branch
a burning bush
that last explosive kiss of gravity
We carry our restless dead
robbed of sleep
haunted by stolen blankets
___________________
Today’s LittleNip:
LIGHTS OUT
—Robert Lee Haycock
LIGHTS OUT
—Robert Lee Haycock
Evening fell but got right back on her feet and beat the daylights out of the sky.
___________________
—Medusa, with thanks to Robert Lee Haycock for today’s fine poems and photos!
Waxing and Waving
—Photo by RL Haycock
—Photo by RL Haycock
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