so, do we appreciate your business

these Rackety Rows upon rackety rows
isled in Navy.
squishity melons, cheekity flat
gravity's robbery, parkity packed
go hauling, be perching
'pon luggage so large:
                     ponderous bird, so henfully
                                                    incfully brooding

Advention, extortion
they hawking salt potion
(eastwest be drilling to tap into gusher) which
yank up our tension, at-
traction, want More
more mouth, more sels (more smackerels)
be dollop a-yonder, recline on a lounge
                                      (now Donder, now Blitzen
                                        so leapfully bound)

Ka-charging, ra-ra
ra-wracking advance (pom-poms all a-flailing)
we skeeter bescatter
      jiving crab walking
      pumping up jam
      sponging de onions:
     [tag ragging]
     [box juking]
     [hop hipping]
     [bug jitting]
     [toe tipping]
     we spin on de dime.

the rackety cargo, rows upon
scuttle 'pon Zenith
bending o'clock
     to filligree fully flown folly
     to trumpet Styx Rivers
     to language our shivers
     to tickle da timbres
     to rollick on high.

apply now, gain fly now
     stack up some miles
now day to the morrow
     with compliment smiles
begin at the ending with style

shortlong, this
wa- wendering westerly southery dusk
pass upon passing, pasturely passing
     the coke and the bust
     the yolk and the dust
                   as watery well
     jauntily sequined
     heavily dredged
     prickly sedged
     dutifully clenched
     manfully twerked
     bernestly zerked
     crustily jawed:

the boozle, the bamble,    the
robin-topped stable
raking out great honking
rackity clackity
chimney-topped
festoons of brass.

December 2022 | Arizona
(inspired by edward estlin)

Week's End

Exhale, my friend, breathe deep
Your scurrying has ceased
Your troubles come undone
Hustle's need now gone.

Rest upon this evening
Let your cares unfold
Disconnect the WiFi
Set aside your aims.

Recline across the heavens
Let the cities slide
Like leaves upon wide river
Plucked by Autumn's tide.

Your chase was long and fruitful
But chasing's never done
Your inbox piling higher
Logs stacked upon the fire.

But, now's your time to let things go
Allow the streets to fill with snow
Breathe deeply of this night's crisp air
Release the ropes you've bound to care.

ORD to YVR

Winter Daydream

 Eyes shut white, waiting for the words...

Coasting up from white
               to silver-gold
               pinpricks jostle
               tumbling scarves of silk
               inviting tossed carnations
               turbulence of apple blossoms               
               drifting of December frost
               soft upon broad mesas.

               meanderings of thought
               upon such white.

Silver-blue: the shadows of white clouds
               soft stains of ink
               upon the stainless snow
               the graphite squares of men,
               traced thin
               with graceful curv-ed corners
               negotiating ice.

Folding flat: origami of blue lake
               smoothing out my thoughts
               like buttery draught
               of apple juice
               sliding long my tongue.
               Like florets of terrain
               that etch dendritic shadows
               on whiteness of the land,
               as ice enshrouds
               the turbulence
               of currents deep & blue.

YVR to ORD