Saturday, September 27, 2014

Cupboard Weather: Dusty Panes


In the window the reflection of windows and an artist's broom
that  reminds me of sweeping the driest patch of butter chamisa's
withered stars, and blue flecks of screen door sloughing off
slapping hard against its crumbling frame from the shrinking
with no rain on this particular path as I look both ways
to cross the street against the warm day of dusty wind and
the way the world makes a window of everything.

Friday, September 26, 2014

Cupboard Weather: Week 25: The New Year

the Jewish new year
in the same month
my new year began 
I count days 
until trees bare branches
the hills turn green
and the parched earth swallows
three drops of rain



Monday, September 22, 2014

Cupboard Weather: anything that moves

Sound emanating from
anything that moves.
Dog brushing against
chamisa. Girl on a bench
running one saw's teeth
against the other. The
"sound of sunshine
coming down" sings
Michael, and I hear it
if I but stand still.

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Shi



light
falls
against 
tomorrow



Friday, September 19, 2014

Cupboard Weather: First Days of Fall: Waiting

I'm here
waiting…

waiting for the first day of Autumn
waiting for rain
waiting to turn the page
waiting for the post
waiting for Prince Charming
waiting to die
waiting for the curtain
waiting for the bus
waiting for dinner
waiting to order
waiting for the camera
waiting for the water to break
waiting for the Messiah
waiting

waiting…
I'm here

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Activists In Autumn Warmth


bottom edge of art by Erin Currier

In the study my husband
watches Tina Turner in
video on the computer’s
flat screen and I wonder where
my own low limbo, sexual mojo 
has gone. No longer
this limber, I sit instead 
out of doors alone, wearing 
no underwear and a grey t-shirt 
embossed with a civil rights 
activist and his wife. The wind 
sweeps softly but doesn’t touch 
the cobwebs at the foot of these 
wrapped metal chairs. The holly plant 
is thinning and needs water
where the dog has eaten away
at its roots.