WALKING ON THIN ICE

Coffee Grounds

homemade cowboy pan coffee, Costa Rican

Coffee Grounds

I
“Would you make another cup of coffee?” says she.
Why don’t you just buy a box of coffee drops? replies me.

II
Coffee, pot, before sun
rising gives light to day
and the wry of way

III
Hey Smith, the second cup of cowboy coffee
pushed you over edge.
Be discreet, do not repeat for this caffeine cup
too far up for down

IV
Too much coffee to sleep.
Not enough to stay awake.
No dope to smoke.
Spose dry and droll’s the way to go

– Smith, 3.26.2015

West Side Market coffee

Real Alignment

roadsign

Real Alignment

Radical radials relieve our unrolling
down the line up the lane over the hill
motivating motivating motivating will.

Thoughts start, gather speed, roll
on roads on paths on trails on grass
on nothing on naught on nowhere on nouns.

This whiz of slow go Zen when expanding
expends upends our depending on vectors
or values of vehicles or vous.

It’s a shame when the shamans
run low on gas for their parsing of path
and partial parole.

The wheel’s wobble cobbles the cruise
into using real alignment
of one into two.

Mind mess less mundane than magic
morass of maybe matches my time
to her climb for clues.

– Smith, 3.24.2015

roadsigns

making bed

dreamcatcher

Making Bed

Heck with yarn, cloth and thread
when it comes to making bed,
there’s more than sleeping.

Such as the farmer’s daughter
awaiting her knight in white satin.

The too big dream small,
make the lesser crawl,
yet all same pillow.

When creature comforts lessen,
wing and tuck adventures begin.

Light and darkness dance redux
fair where firm foundation,
faux softer.

Dreams bestow wondrous slow,
or grow blankets large and muffled.

Now I lay me down to sleep
sans sheet of weep and wallow
for retreat.

Dreaming dandy lion wine
in baby bellowed quantum.

– Smith, 3.23.2015

owlwellian altar

not owl 1

Owltopia

Big owl dreaming small
from old barn in fall
hoots in holler

Dreams mice and rabbits rare
with maybe a chocolate eclair
to follow

Butter flies from knife to toast
just before some raccoon roast
offered up below

Food and flings
and endless springs
be owlwellian altar

– Smith, 3.22.2015

not owl 2