Francine Porad

 

 

a collaboration from 'probably II'
('real' renga sorta).

one-line linked haiku

 

Francine Porad
Marlene Mountain

awesome technical advances can we get past bombings and hatred

life will be better once all the black gold’s ill-gotten

a full tank of gas little traffic and a coupon for fish and chips

rain delay as glad bulbs loaded with peach harden off

thoughts turn to spring planting parrot tulips in portable pots

free as a bird unless habitatly-challenged

 

home of the brave’ have you turned in your suspicious nature

tip of the cat’s tail last seen under the fence

a long day until it began to darken beneath the fluffy clouds

adding a dab of purple in the shadows

no workable pen in the truck a poem stays just inside an oak

with a journal and a computer handy I’m happy

seasonal change the cucumber beetles outnumber the cukes

‘buddy system’ 25% of rapes by more than one man

how to kill females under the guise of how females were killed

drive-by shooting not found in an instruction manual

tattoos stretch into neolithic times where earth meant something

red ocher on cave walls an I-was-here handprint

 

another slightly-varied monotype seaweed pieces in the press

gone to his head with plenty of room dubya’s egomania

photographing up women’s skirts OK’d by WA Supreme Court

j edgar’s name still ‘tackied’ on the peoples’ wall

hundreds of thousands without power in Yucatan Peninsula*

tho tired lavender and pink now bedded together

I pluck the spent blossoms then start my exercise routine

autumn sky after the mist settles down

overhead in ever-widening circles the route of the hawk

pretty much ignored albert gore’s view of iraq and me

if Saddam treats others the way he treats his own countrymen...

clear and present how fall has exaggerated the pines

 

will young martha toogood’s mom do prison or do parenting again

verdict on Mad (Madelyne shortened) still out

prediction of a colder than last year’s winter which was warmish

for the first time seed clusters on our ivy

ready for almost anything a passed-along elvis shirt unfolded

the kitten disappears before the neutering

 

 

September 19-25, 2002
Washington - Tennessee


Footnotes
*Hurricane Isidore


Published in LYNX, 2002

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 


 

Francine Porad
Carmen's Selections

Pamela A. Babusci

Jerry Ball

Marjorie Buettner

Darrell Byrd

Yu Chang

Tom Clausen

Carlos Colon

Paul Conneally

Connie Donleycott

Carol 'Blackbird' Edson

Jeanne Emrich

Gerald England

Stanford M.Forrester

Garry Gay

Ferris Gilli

Raffael de Gruttola

Yvonne Hardenbrook

Christopher Herold

Dorothy Howard

Connie Hutchison

Winifred Jaeger

Betty Kaplan

Karen Klein

Karina Klesko

Joann Klontz

Elizabeth Searle Lamb

Peggy Willis Lyles

PJM

Mary Lee McClure

Michael McClintock

Robert Major

Paul David Mena

Paul Miller

Marlene Mountain

Marian Olson

Tom Painting

Doris Pearson

Elbert Pruitt

Joan Reeves

Bruce Ross

Carmen Sterba

John Stevenson

Alan Summers

George Swede

Hilary Tann

Cindy Tebo

Doris Thurston

Serge Tome

Max Verhart

Michael Dylan Welch

Billie Wilson

Ruth Yarrow

Cindy Zackowitz

 

a renga collection:

with Ruby Spriggs

with Yvonne Hardenbrook

with Marlene Mountain

 
 

 

web design by suhni bell
© copyrights retained by the individual contributors