Poems

The difference between poetry and comedy
Is the difference between French songs and German;
Buddhist prayers and Catholic;
A dagger and a butcher knife;
A whisper and a butcher knife;
A Buddhist and a butcher knife.

First snow of winter
gingerbreads our neighborhood
in powdered sugar.

year changes:no changes
except new
numbers
and thoughts offering new
states of being
that will prove elusive
yet knowing this

knowing this

we persevere
and twelve months hence
will persevere again
which is all there is
as long as there is

forward
motion