Monday, February 28, 2011

Bail Two

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 17

















red leads anger past
pink's plump loveliness into
gray's dark labyrinth.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Burrito

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 16
























Bombastic taco
that's what a burrito is
don't be so fancy

Today's haiku brought to you by Frederick Merrill Samuel Bailie, age 11.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Old New

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 15























Containers, coffers
bottles, bags, cities, people.
discard when empty.




Friday, February 25, 2011

Fenced In

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 14
























redemption is found
under the sign of the cross,
where drunks, pigeons sleep.




Thursday, February 24, 2011

Empty Nest

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 13

Stripped cleared scrubbed swept stacked
sorted divided arranged
discussed settled sold

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Gifts4U

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 12

In hell's fifth circle
eternity spent rowing
for t-shirts and hats

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Inside

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 11


Deconstructing truth.
Identity. Certainty.
Logic of despair.

Haiku: Cindy Bailie

Monday, February 21, 2011

Old Growth

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 10

Who lived here, loved here?
Can you hear that? It's the sound
of our dreams dying.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Fallout

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 9

When does metaphor
morph into reality?
We're the red menace.

Weed and Wall

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 8

Forget herbicide.
Your poison won't stop us
from coming for you.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Fremont

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 7

I'm looking for God
anywhere everywhere
unlikely places

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Eat

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 6

dirt, crow, humble pie
my shorts, your words, my hat, shit.
you eat with that mouth?

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

City Center

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 5

Cities are like hands
nimble and strong in their youth
gnarled near the end.


Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Atomic Liquors

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 4

Brain cells flash and burn
hot as a house fire fast as
a life spent waiting.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Scratch

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 3

This ain't no peep show
you can scratch your way into.
Pay up or fuck off.


Sunday, February 13, 2011

Dry Pool

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 2

Harsh light of high noon
disrobes our hidden places.
Lays the widow bare.


Saturday, February 12, 2011

hollly

Collaboration - 30 images 30 poems 30 days - Day 1

Daddy's little girl
reflects a ruined culture
that's for sale, dirt cheap.




Wednesday, February 09, 2011