Seven seconds away from the flash.
The booms could knock ya.
I know the bunnies were out there.
They couldn’t have slept well.
I hope they hid near the house.
Dry places can be found.
Eat and sleep,
That’s life in August.
Big little came in first.
Then new little showed.
Nine thirty
All is well
With twenty years in Hawaii
Extended Family and community
Thrown out by flash fire
No contact by wire
Dashed away. Thousands unacounted.
Speak to us, you can.
Present the story
To us far away.
We will hear you, Phena.
What do you feel?
Your voice is real
How are the people? What do you say?
Homes, families moved out of place
As firestorms cross Maui
Making life difficult for all.
Major loss and disruption.
So hard the climate changes.
New developments occur on the globe.
Keep what we can stable, simple.
Cooperation can aid all.
More than we expect developes.
Keep neat and practice caution.
Help where you can.
Be prepared at all times.
Hand cuffed for throwing things in the cabin.
I prefer not to be a passenger on that flight.
My days go easier, thank you.
I’ll have quiet coffee and a brioche.
That’s my seat, my ticket says.
I’ll sit there, thank you, and read.
Getting ready. Nearly set.
Was a while last time I bet.
Familiar faces over pancakes.
An hour from here about what it took.
Things were lining up again.
Filing days like I don’t know when.
The owner lady remembered us
The place was loud until one table left.
Next to us they were talking loud.
Hey, we made it.
More than ten years we’ve breakfasted there.
If we’re lucky we’ll do it again.
A car or two snapped by
Wasn’t sure, they went so fast.
Thought of counting and they were gone.
Just a blurs, didn’t take long.
Of deer there was no sign.
Nothing to see this time.
Why am I expecting any at all
Leaves are thick amid trees so tall.
Now we adapt without fear.
White sky in clouds
Driveway is curing.
No one out after eight.
Clean and neat,
This day is slow,
A real treat
There’s nowhere to go.
Take some time,
Walking slowly,
Keep in line,
Holy moly
Two guys were putting more hot shiny
Black oil on the drive.
She watched out the windows,
“I want to do that,” She said.
I stayed away, didn’t even want to smell it.
I worried the bunnies would get it on their feet.
Keep away everyone. It’s hopeless black gook.
You’re cooked if you’re near it.
This is a clean new driveway.
I’ll look at it, but I sure don’t want to smell it.
Makes me think about
Giving up coffee.
9:10
She’s out there with a chair.
The mailman doesn’t come for another hour,
But we have a good mailman
and one who’ll walk right through it.
Okay, now so the workers were saying
They were up in Avon and put flags across the road
And people lift the flags and walk right across.
Parents and kids don’t pay attention.
Shawn the good mailman came
And he did well, stepped carefully.
Now we wait 24 hours and all will be well.
Asphalt Days are behind us.
A giant white with pipes hanging on.
Has the city label
And workers in brightly
Shining safety vests
Iridescent green or orange.
Blocked the street then took off.
Quick and official
Keep out of the way.
Heads up, hats on
Their working today
Clearing the roads,
Do what they say.
More notices than I’ve time to read.
Could be a brighter day today.
Starting slower under high grey.
Smoke from Canada is what they say.
Two rabbits we only see from afar.
Our distant pets by chance
Because they never get too near.
how pets are when they’re wild animals.
They keep away because they’re prey
And to run aloof is their way.
We’re content they never roam,
They’re happy this yard is home.
We look for them every day.
And keeping away is good for all.
I know they know we watch them
and have learned to live with wildlife.
Beyond the name is the function.
How well it’s constructed.
Here we are beginning.
Coffee me easy while I figure.
Labeled well and set
Stream diagonally on the way.
Off to an Ohio landmark
In good traveling weather.
Some is history
Others are geography.
They are mapped out and popular.
In the Buckeye State.
Halfway down the hall I ‘m dodging
Them plastered on the wall
It’s early, too early to begin this way.
What do you say?
Sunshine, how are you?
We’re going to vote.
Simple, yet must be done.
Who’s packing the ballots?
Where are all the good guys?
Seems it should be obvious.
Even my coffee went Luke warm.
Whose side are we on?
A good drift of sunshine,
The temperature is somewhere in the middle.
Great to have such calming days.
Helps us all around.
Tying it off.
Hi-Jack. hi-Jack sent me his book.
Like mine, history ran right over it.
Ernie did two takes on:
This minute in history is brought to to by Shell.
And he was so proud to get 6 hundred thousand dollars
Then history ran right over it.
We never saw it coming. Any of us.
Hey, they got rid of slavery.
Got better dentists.
So now it’s sunshine
And days in a month.
Heavy thunder for two hours
While I slept and missed it.
Young bunny sat out this morning,
Must have wondered why it thundered.
What was going on?
Explosions in the sky.
Have to learn to read to understand?
Bunnies eat, sleep, run … and breed.
A lot of noise in a thunder rumble.
There is comfort when you’re wrapped in bed.
When you’re a year old wild rabbit
Living outside it may be tougher the first time.
Kept me rolling all night okay
Without a pause in the chatter. It keeps rolling.
Poco summer flurries. Bushes turning.
maybe partially wind drivin’ I’d say.
Good glory to all.
I’ll greet you.
Hurrah. nice shoes.
Get along now. Keep moving.
Up with the morning sun.
Straight into work that’s begun.
After a morning coffee of course
and toast while I’m at it.
Whip up to speed.
It’s what we need.
A lot of turmoil.
And mouths to feed.
Paling up.
We’re seeing them together.
While in the warm they’re talking superlatives.
We’re Comfortable to indoor doings.
A bashful movement of The leaves on the bushes.
all else is silent.
High fine thin in the blue above.
Why not Pie and ice cream me.
My rules have been stretched.
Oregano for all who choose.
Mic jagger has turned eighty.
Easy come easy go.
Heated to the gills
Took Providence the light cruiser to Hawaii from San Diego.
Had a picnic with the crew on the fantail
The ship photographer worked with me
Shit my friend and me looking by the crew
fifty hands on deck.
I should pull out that photo,
Value it for the time it was.
Now many years, fifty, later.
The time at sea with the navy.
Poems written on sunny days.
The smell of the sea.
.
Stretched out blue.
Comes home to me.
It sure do
Yes, it do.
Duck worthy. Started this morning with several
Ducks in the long away backyard.
This is wrong; blue jays back and forth
Around the feeder. Ml’s idea / action.
Chipmunks and squirrels plus Little in the center.
A backyard packed in action.
i’ll have brown sugar on toast.
it’s M’s fresh loaf - delicious.
Winding through the final week of July.
The hottest days of the year.
Means 90s and humid around here.
This house is well constructed, always comfortable.
High thin overhead.
Mid-morning and still, no one out.
Breeze in the bushes,
Leaves turn their faces.
Saturday night at the islands.
Twenty thousand revelers seemed plenty.
I read that during the war of 1812
The canons at Put-in Bay could be heard in Huron.
Not especially a long distance
For booms and flashing
across a quiet flat lake during a still evening.
Oliver Hazard Perry lives in his proclamation:
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
I heard of this battle when I was in grade school.
Now two hundred years have passed.
The echoes of that war have reverberated.
Naturally this is homemade soup today.
We’ll, well. We’ll explain it all.
It’s still summer.
Haven’t hit the fall.
home done soup is close
to the most
stop for a toast
Watch for bones.
Wait for instruction before beggining.
Pack similar berries together..
Sort by color and shape.
Currently longing for space to box.
Stirring words to capture flowing thought-ponies.
Whirling for a rhyme .
Bailing out in time.
Settling down by nine.
Get your tickets ready.
Take a seat on the bus
Seems to start and stop real steady.
We’re packing in the rest of us.
The weatherman on tv,
so many and weatherwomen included
said the dew point is 72.
I had to write that down.
one in particular i saw seemed worried about it.
I’m 78 and know nothing about dew points.
Hat the forecast.
Do it quietly as Little and NewLittle are calmly faced off between beds 2 and 3.
Scattered patches of blue behind puffy clouds this morning.
Joyous. Hat the forecast.
No traffic at all.
i’ll have a second cup of coffee.
Soft beginnings in morning light.
The day gently calls.
Slowly turning puffy clouds
Fill the skyway halls.
Two large rabbits ran across the front lawn.
Quick as they appeared they were gone.
Now the lawn is an empty canvas again.
We’ll see which speeding bunny can win.
On my old piano I’ll work out a tune,
To honor still nights and the moon.
By the starlight and partial breeze
There’ll be a melody to please.
Blue is in the sky, not completely.
Enough for the first time in a while.
Nothing to be seen flying, walking.
Or Driving by this morning.
Colors are bright.
Good light starting this day.
Remembering I recall the people;
vehicles vanished with no trace.
Now in a new millennium
The ever changing has come to this.
Words lean ahead and are mysterious
Even as they’re spoken.
Fields are filled with rolls of grain.
Driving by you have to notice.
Field’s don’t usually look this way.
I should take a picture to show you.
Like toilet paper rolls five feet wide, six feet tall.
If you’ve seen these tools before it’s nothing new.
Bigger or more rolls than ever.
It has been a while since rolls were there.
So now you really notice them.
Food for everyone no doubt about it.
The population is so very large.
Instead of more rows of houses.
Food in fields makes sense. A welcome sight.
The mower pulls itself and the mowee.
Up and down the line, cuts so fine.
The air quality has been cut to ribbons.
Terrible sky what have you done.
It sprinkled last night.
Streets got wetter.
Holy mackerel
Will things get better?
Plow, plow turn it over
Give the bunnies fresh, new clover.
Make it better; clean the air
All over, yes, all over.
Noticing the house across the street
I could tell you about it.
There are only bushes and trees visible.
So thick with foliage no house can be seen.
In the fall Richard’s house is prominent.
I worry when there is no bush between us.
What change when the woods is thick.
Give us the green between.
Now with that said it’s a return to morning.
A return to calm.
Sunday morning all around.
Deer or bunnies with hardly a sound.
Promise of warm this afternoon.
Are you in the mood to wait?
We saw it pass.
Was on the slate.
Turn the levers
Wake them up.
It’s the full count,
bottoms up.
Pile words in a stack
See what walking we can run into.
Don’t scatter. Keep on track.
Familiar places we’ve all been to.
Dressed for success we all wear
What we have, how much we care.
Looking sharp is a treat.
Slow down, this one is our street.
We’ll mark it well
Using our power
The wishing well
Denotes the hour.
