Haiku – Mute

Last I saw she was
Dancing naked in earbuds –
Deaf, blind with data

Paleo Blues

She said I had
Paleo blue eyes,
Light the color of water
From before Fire –

Then dawn over Manhattan
Greeting us
Like the oldest sunrise
In history,

Where my ribs, ancient,
Are stuffed in the mud
Of Olduvai Gorge,
Aching for excavation,

The sun
Introducing
Day Ten Million
With ten million more to go –

I pull my bones out of bed,
To go walk the dog.

Apparently I need rescue by
Captain America or
Wonder Woman,
But they are
Super busy.

Instead I get Clam Man.

This is no job for
Steroid-jacked mollusks!
Or snapping, nipping
Seashells!

Clam Man is dejected
When I call for a do-over with
The Sandman.

“It is life’s work to recognize the mystery of the obvious”
– Jim Harrison (Day Twenty-Seven – 28 Days of Unreason)

Honeycrisp apple –
Wife offers sweet mystery,
Temps me with a bite

“The river can’t heal everything”
– Jim Harrison (Day Twenty-Five – 28 Days of Unreason)

Lips as split as sky –
The headwaters of mercy –
Rain on Golgotha

“Nature has portals, rather than doors”
– Jim Harrison (Day Twenty-Four– 28 Days of Unreason)

Kelp, brack, salt and mud
Moon pulls blanket from the bed –
Smell slams angry door

"Nature detonates your mind with the incalculable freshness of the new day"
– Jim Harrison (Day Twenty-Two – 28 Days of Unreason)

Nature calls; frogs splash
Old pond scents familiar –
Dog is relieved