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