072118

Road trip to red stick. Bringing dog, pesto, plants, books. After a late night watching Thor.

orange butterflies
too weak to move their wings
feel that way myself

072018b

a wing flap from this butterfly
visible from space
sparks hurricanes across the globe

crops fail in its shadow
don't ask what it consumes
you don't want to know

072018

a few indigenes
in zoos but one gender's missing
number three

071918d

First Date


our males
carry the eggs
until they hatch
provide the first meal
but sure
we can go out
I've never dated an Earthman

071918c

In two days  we are leaving on a trip to visit ooe of our daughters. The dog doesn't know that she has signed up for a five-hour car trip, but I think she will prefer it to not seeing us for a week. If only she understood that that is the choice! There won't be room in the van for much of the stuff she left in our house, but at least some of the books will fit. The piano: no.

071918b

pierced
worms
squirming
on the hooks
brim and boys lick lips
but only one guts the other

071918

look up at the stars
and wonder what we gave up
empty ISS