On the road over Altamont Passwind turbines stir by the incessantgusts that whip through the sere grass.The white towers form uniform rowslike the identical white headstoneswhere two million are interred.When wind turbines die, their bones goto landfill’s dry catacombs. No memorial,no eulogy for making clean energy.Their fiberglass will never decomposeand can’t be recycled.The blades will... Continue Reading →
1.A gaudy omen outside my neighbor’s window,bougainvillea’s flash mob of purple miniskirts.Let autocorrect create the comic simile.Today is like another opportunityfor sinning.2.The Canada Geese on a long sabbaticalfrom their career of migration—they enjoy this new-found park so muchthey may never go back to work.Their maps have folded in disobedience.3.Enough of bad weather, the hot and... Continue Reading →
High in the rafters of Earth,a ventriloquized voice beckonsour species from the first eutherian mammalto the Anthropocene, our hapless current epoch.Régimes whisper to extinctions.My mammalian body is dutifulat its mammogram.I am moved to tears again.The groove in my left breast“tissue sparing.” They said, “clean margins.”What is more powerful than allsocial media in its ferventecho chamber... Continue Reading →
How many times I’ve passed them in the produce aislefearful their unblemished skin concealsblandness, disappointment.I walk away sure they are not as good as they appear.For the first time in our marriage, fruit trees in the backyard,one finally revealing its identity.In summer my day could revolve around this tree.Pears lie on the ground each morning,... Continue Reading →
