Inside the Cake

Tonight I feel as if
I'm inside an invisible
cake. Reality cake.

I didn't have anything
to do with baking
a cake. I don't know

who baked it, or if
it just baked itself.
I'm simply inside the

cake. Tonight that's
all right. I don't have
to know why the

cake exists or why
I am inside it or why
reality is this cakiness.



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College Test in May

students look at the test
a contract with memory.
sunlight in windows


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Lichen, Sierra Nevada

pale green lichen
on blue rocks, top of mountain.
a patient form of life.


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Consider It Done (Hike Haiku)

as we hiked I said
I like you & promised to write
a haiku for you


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Gangster President

vile gangster president
(cult of hatred) makes war
on law and knowledge


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The Stemware of the Bourgeois Garden

tulips. red yellow white orange
flexible stemware
filled with soft secrets


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Wrong Order

these are not the
seventeen syllables I ordered.
a refund, please



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