THE SIGNAL

You are a sign.

A sounding.

A solution.

Experience experience

As music,

Not cacophony.

Let choice

Be the symphony.

The conductor be

your choosing.

SELF-SABOTAGE

Between

the hostage

and the abductor

there’s a complicity

that is loveless,

that can turn habit

into homelessness,

if you let it.

METEOROLOGY

It doesn’t take much

to overlay

an atmosphere of

assumption

on to any scene

or situation.

Who knows

really

what’s what,

right?

Do you?

I don’t.

It’s all make-believe,

smoke and mirrors,

a meteorology

of the mind.

Whatever we tell ourselves

is only today’s forecast,

a passing 

precipitation–

presumption–

no more real than

newsroom wizardry

made for the blue screen.

HABITAT

A fox

will sniff for food

at the back door

and later leave

its scat at the front.

A deer at night will

dookie-up the lawn

and nonchalantly

the next day

nibble on

the low hanging leaves

in the yard.

The men

inside the house

will shoot the shit

for days and then,

in tamer moments,

scrupulously

sift through the landscape

of their lives

for the stink of habits

that keep them

comfortable

and ravenous 

at once.