Poet Tree

The sign on the tack shed says it all: "Money Can't buy happiness. But it can buy horses, Which is pretty much the same thing....

The first light, the most silent and sacred Descends upon the tents in Los Angeles mall Into eyes where all they have left is receiving. Som...

It takes a lot of effort To not remember Come September — I've done all this before But I have to forget To imagine a future. The arena ...

"Let's cast all memories away," she said with glee, "They only pull, pull us back," to familiar sadness And unresolv...

You can't airquote storyteller As everyone has an origin yarn Of waiting for a dime bag at Pico and Vermont Or finally rising one's ...

Three Grand Patrons come out of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ghosts of course, but they look very pleased with the plans They are holding ...

That mare needs some horse hypnosis. She’s in a long line of unrequited desirers Toward Brio, who sticks to his grain And his noble reputati...

Smog rainbow in the distance glowing with the flow As the universe forms a rooster tail behind the barge That plows through mermaid central,...

Angie the trainer looks like she came from a John Ford flick. She keeps the Horspitality House humming With saddle racks and spur straps, cu...

Those Mixolydian chords And that 350-pound voice Singing the heart out of an emaciated junkie How I flow with the wave of the arena hive As ...

The wet sand, when pummeled, makes dust explode like bombs, The flood-lit indoor ring seems training ground for war, A squirrel screams from...

Nothing says love like frothing. It always seems so golden at first To be the candy man But it always turns to a curse, All thought directed...

When a hausfrau in mid-life crisis sells everything Except her donkey and three mules And drives all the way from Florida with them There’s ...

Today I became invisible again To the neighbors. No more peace officer calls, No letters still forwarded. The calla lilies have been harvest...

The grass herds spring in flax as gazelles, The oaks are giant wolves with silent howls To guard the wind tunnels lapping from shore. In thi...

Two moths over the arena sand, They seem to be a pair Although the sun divides them from the green And grasses don't pretend to even not...

The reality I had agreed to Lasted til I fell asleep,  When everything happened, the lack of forms  No detriment at all, Like I was falling ...

The squirrels are jubilant today After I learned their secret: Know everything, but only chase Seeds you can reach. One hung high from the t...

The sad horse clown throws his head at your face Then lifts a fart to your nose as you brush him. It's a joke, see, but he has that look...

Nature and I get along now. The chickadee at the top of the tree Is so close In golden green light. The rabbit zags Beside me, content As no...

"So he wants to tell you what to do And when to do it, but that is not The way it goes," said one smiling Horsewoman to another, a...

The crows have been angry with me today, I tried to escape from myself once And they cawed "You are not supposed  To be here." The...

Tulsi has the tenacity of an oak, Characteristic of her breed, In her case feline starseed Delivered with her white seer Forelock to Kauai, ...

Brio chiseled me for some grain Navajo looked on outraged But the day resolved In delightful thoughts That rose from Laguna Canyon From happ...

Even the robostrobe throws smoke back at first, until you know What questions to ask. Same with the stones, who clam up Until you let their ...

Uhaul has a broom up his ass today. "Amber went all Orange County on me With her Wellesley knee-patch breeches Putting the Hanoverians ...

In Echo Park, near Frogtown The Chinese lanterns broke Into a galaxy of shards, As Buster Keaton the dog Rescued children from the pool, A g...

Obsidian tonight is braided Rastafarian, Wears pink boots over his feathers, Knocks the Peninsula shavings over Because he can, not a Quarab...

He’s gone now, on the long, long road to Elko Where snow comes in a flash, and the sky turns Blue to black in an instant, to make way For my...

The only noise the rocks will make Is when they're relocated. They were told by sacred mountain To hold its crystal frequency like breat...

Sweep the dust, Process the memory As part of the process That no longer includes me. Say goodbye, fear and shame, Be as a feather on your w...

Red, white and blue for the horseman's holiday, Stalls empty of all but the horses And a golden light of forgetfulness Imbuing all that ...

It's to get the gods back  Is the purpose of poetry  The translator said, as she languished Over limonera rendered into English.  ...

Walking Juneau this evening has been like a video game, Cars out of nowhere to dodge, small attack dogs on magical leashes And muscular husk...

Deconstruct experience, the dragons say, In dream, look at those throbbing hills, They've got you hypnotized they are  Still and real as...

At the moment I recognized the scent Of a need to find an adequate Symbol the great white bird Passed from meaning and my roof. When the spe...

My cells                 are like sails They pick up all                                the codes From dolphins leaping                     ...