return

 For how long has Little returned

This morning she’s here. Comfortable and cozy.

We think she’s a she rabbit.

Here having breakfast this morning

Closer too. Near our widow.

Large and the same, our Little home again.

Heat has broken

 we’ve lost the heat of summer.

 yet light warmth pervades 

heat will return in force thank God of nature

it’s scary when it goes.

  because this morning is cooler I mention it

Of great note

what we have is a  monarchy transitioned

Last time I was seven.

there is nothing to do

mark the days respectfully

a straight flight is not always easy

 routine drift under heavy clouds above. 

 all is well, however, there is a problem. 

Two of them. So this day is irregular.

Tabby is not at the front desk. Doctor Tajour

said we have to wait because he's working alone 

and doesn't know where his assistant is.

 

He is gluing two crowns in for me this morning.

i don't mind waiting for  my favorite  dentist because

i don't expect a shot of novocaine, only glue today.

Jennifer the assistant turned up.  she said Wednesdays they 

 

usually work at the other office. 

The doctor came in and glued my crowns 

in two minute. He did.

 i'm out of here.

Work on Dr. Seif Tajour.

Mickey Rooney's birthday

A few years ago Sandusky's historic State theater 

had Mickey Rooney make an appearance, as many old performers 

do when they go around the country a final time raising money as they talk about their career. 

In his youth Mickey was a giant star doing films and appearances with Judy Garland. 

in his old age, for Mickey to make an appearance was a big event for Sandusky.

my wife and i happened to be listening to the radio in the car as a couple of people were promoting Mickey Rooney on the local radio station and one of them mentioned the day Mickey comes to Sandusky will be his eightieth birthday.

When i beard that i immediately told my wife we're going.  

She said why? 

And i told her, "so we could sing happy birthday Micky Rooney."

And we went.

And we did.

Rabit home again

 Back again is Little, our favorite bunny for the past year.

Moving on, now a garage sale we do today. Call it yard sale in front of the garage.

It is not easy to make space for shoppers and lookers. and the stress.  no one is around.

 

then talked to Stephen who runs five miles a day. Lives up the street.

another someone unknown bought a roman column downtown.  says it's in the trunk.

then a big crowd materialized.  they buy

the cowl from my sloop Navigator is gone. 

said goodbye to years on the boat.

why is there a soft pain when releasing the past?

 

then no one. around.

Why haven't they taken my hundred years old desk chair. no one all day has looked at chairs.

my wife and i always went to chairs at yard sales.

our Andrew Carnegie portrait print framed for a library stays with us.

Llked talking to Pragna's father.

the day ended

we sold well.  it was still tough work.

good morning

 working on today, Sunday - hooray.

what do ya say? out of the way.

do not forsake me, oh my darling.

we've a sprinkle of rain.

Ned Washington was the lyricist 

and a kind fellow i met at an a.s.c.a.p.

meeting in  los angeles.

what a good way to go to the city.

now we're going easy.

mark this as complete.

warmer than cool.

i've been the fool.

On our planet

 half of all the world's farmers

are subsistance farmers

who manage to grow enough to eat.

Dental

 Brushed and gargled very throughly.

Then got moving; early start in rain.

off to get some kind of cap form made.

They have me bite sticky stuff.

but there is more: next week return to finish.

I have no idea what else happens today.

Five seconds after the dentist comes in

He he shoots my gums with novacane.

dental surprises i don't like.

I sit there and take it, eh?

Where is the fun? 

Need a great song.

Cabin

 three or four hours north 

of los angeles i had a cabin i

 bought from Lonesome Al.

Pine covered 6400 feet elevation. 

up there alone on a warm night 

i left the cabin's main door open.

in the morning the screen door

had white lime from the outhouse

 forming an imprint of a bears nose.

Seems summer's blooming

Never hear blooming 

i suppose in flower stores you do

i don' t hang out there often

Not one in my neighborhood.

Say grows flowers.

 Noontime Canons booming 

 Leafing through three books of mary oliver

reading Lonesome dove again 

Reently several several larry mcmurtry

Tecumseh and the prophet 

Now can i write?

Michael connelly again

Say so.

saguaro cactus

 bad news.

petrifying is the pending

demise of the saguaro cactus.

forever symbolic of desert plant life.

a few years ago we walked

in the Sonoran desert, saw the saguaro while

going to see my daughter

warm sand out

open sky

dry, beautiful.

memorable 

Middle day

 Plain out. You know ?

Regularissima.  And this is satisfying.

Hits the regular button on the nose.

Don't  need a team of horses 

to direct this into the garage.

Park it ,,, mark it 

done for the day

still

 nothing. 

 it's impossible.

the leaves aren't moving.

not a breath.

inhalation exhalation takes 

more than's happening. 

large trees, little bushes, top to bottom

 nature's stiff out there good morning.

breath for me

and i on you

Now a small cardinal is moving

in the winterberry bush near the window.

back and forth all around.

constant hopper.

Okay he left.  

I saw a leaf move.

Slow but more to normal.

The day will make it.

Last week of August

 been thinking, putting time  together.

to notice where we are when i write a little.

so looking at poems can tell me how 

 often i am chopping one down.

i'll have a wack.   now it's quiet, nothing's

going on. 

 haven't figuered if this street

is going to grow traffic wise. 

could be it'll grow out some other streets. 

if we're lucky we won 't have to think 

about it. right now it comes up cause 

there's nothing much else to ponder.

rabbit returns

 how can they return?

Little reappeared, then a large rabbit.

all were waygone a week ago. 

 not a sign. then last night 

at the regular time, same spot.

one, then the other. 

a surprise for we humans.

seems they were passing through.

must have found a new home nearby.

dentist

this one is the best i've ever had;

still i don't like to go there.

all i bring with me is fear.

can't stop remembering other  times.

other years. 

though this is new,

i wear a mask. a disguise. 

but he'll find me crouching down, waiting my turn.

the day after feeling better;

being thankful and cautious. 

Welcome Millers Orchards

Peaches

Produce

Closed Sundays

Mon - Fri

Favored for Flavor

rocka my boat

 ready to bail ...

the world gets watered like a dry flower pot.

no doubt of it pouring.

tension means no traffic ... a big lacka.

a train sounding comfort.

lacka, lacka, lacka.

come-a rocka my,

Come-a rocka my boat.

Rabbits gone

 two days without seeing either one of the big ones, or our Little.

aware there is definitely less movement outsider  our wondows. 

we look at the appropriate hour.

 missing  small bunny she called Little was obvious.

daily for five months we had watched it chew clover, play, sleep and grow.

went from lying on the lawn 

in one of the same spots every day

around 7 p.m.

to gone.

Season slipped by

 hardly aware of how easily the season slipped by.

we're enjoying summer thinking where to go because this is

finally into the heat of the season, then it rolls into fall.

just feeling it before the colors or coolness come bout

but no doubt; the change is in the air.

iconic

 The word iconic has been 

discovered this year.

Cover it up.

Give it a rest.

i have an island

 

i have an island in my room

i keep it in my bed

it's there i sun and walk on sand

and swim inside my head

piano tuned

 said as if done.

the man's on the run

heading this way.

will see how it goes.

holy mackerel, don't need anything

but a pleasant time.

what i want, what i wish

row the boat.  catch a fish.

simplicity elasticity, musical notes in captivity

here this poem ends ... explicitly 

now tune the piano?

and the man quickly did.

when she asked me

 

when she asked me to turn

off the sprinklers in twenty minutes

i nodded and  noticed the kitchen clock

and then the one in the living room.

they were ten minutes apart.

i began to tell her and she said

“Oh, jack” in that tone, you know which one.

“This is not science.”

“go make a clock then” is what i thought

but didn’t say,

then forgot where i was going with this

so i returned to the spot where i thought it

ever do that?

it usually works  -  to capture forgotten thoughts

return to the spot where you thought it.

this time it didn’t work.

looking out the kitchen window

there on the back of a chair

a squirrel sat intensely

looking in at me.

i had a plan where i was going with this

but  now, before i forget again,

i'd better go out

and turn off the sprinklers.

The long shot of the morning sun

 i remember the long shot of the morning sun, first thing, at the crack of dawn.

 how it hit the kitchen wall.

that's  how i learned where east was

 and that the sun moved a little every day cause i made a small mark on the wall with a pencil where the sun first hit.

and the weeks became seasons and changed where i marked on the wall. 

Oh, the color of the sun and the wall. 

i'd mark small so my mother wouldn't see it.

F in space

woke with a tone in my head,
checked on the piano, it was an F.

later in the day i remembered the F.
next day, again i duplicated the F.

then a train went by:
what do you know, the mournful tone was? an F.

now i am waiting another F'n train.

Let's retire the bucket list

like large stars people mounted on their houses,

 because it was the rage a few years ago.

thank goodness it is out of fashion now.

Dump 'em.

i say that so a few more people will

take down the ridiculous stars.

while we're at it: retire the bucket list.

we don't need a list of special things we 

must do in our lifetime.

Survive and return

 didn't expect to look out this evening

to see frolicking two full grown bunnies.

for ten or fifteen minutes they did

typical rabbit play: hopping, running, staying close.

turning the corner on summer

change comes whether you think of it or not.

are you talking to me?

keep your eye on the ball. 

that's common sense.

 

don't know why i repeat the rules

eventhough the rules keep changing.

all seems so simple when you see the field.

stay within the lines.  that's what they're for.

 

plenty hot and humid out.

though we've signs that another season will soon appear

line up, wash well, dry, stay clean, my dear.

and be ready for what change comes next.

Zucchini bread

 no yogurt with dry cereal this morning.

 sure they exist, but forget about it.

today it's zucchini bread and butter

so moist and light

it tastes like cake - the bread does.

not a tough meal to take.

call it a tasty breakfast.

but don't talk with your mouth full.