something is wrong...technically

Error sign on the screen

reminds me of the time

this girl I was dating told me

all her family were suicides

Haiku on the Wall

Haiku on the Wall, originally uploaded by DRheins.

ink on old white wall

I pick a red pen, with felt

paint this star for you

Super Trip

Colts fan caravan

hot drive down to Miami

singing ourselves horse

No My Pet

I am not a cat person
nor do I keep a dog
share no especial equine love
lack affection for the frog

If I were named poet laureate

If I were named poet laureate
I would put it on my tombstone
Print it in my obituary
Place gold stickers on all my books

December 21st

New snow dusts the yard / cold, grey Indiana morn / jeans crack, chafe each step

Forties fading fast / five days till I turn fifty / milestone or millstone?

Homecoming Roadtrip

Deer on the road dead / a man leaps from burning Jeep / Four cops with guns drawn

Bob Dylan at IU Auditorium

even in row 5 / Bob Dylan is a mere blur / Tom Waits a shadow

Fair Exchange

She pays me in coin /

small change she finds on the ground /

Good luck, you’ll need it

sitting hair on grass

the great ape lounged while we watched

his back to the glass

His head is spinning with the theory

Between each gig; all is lost.

A gaping hole of anxious self-pity

A drain where once a reservoir stood

His life is measured in monthly cycles

Of moon and Mr. J.P. Morgan

Where once he toiled to change the oceans

Now he moves to follow the flood

It rains with fury this dark Tuesday morning

He works alone in his cosmic man cave

Seattle glassworks mildly smolder in the tray

Francis Francis stays red, hot and brewing

Rainier’s blue outline / surreal in the yellow sky / sends me off with awe

Slip

Loose falls the night gown /

flower slip softly gathers /

silk pile on the shag

Birds and Bees

Swarmed by hot suitors / I spy my lily lover / queen of the corner

Stumbling Man

hands on the hard earth

try to break the fall, but fail

life is a stumble

Blur

Stickers, Locals Only Nightclub, originally uploaded by DRheins.

the night was a blur / hot and fast, full of music / low lights and high times

Pause on the highway

stuck behind the hearse

i am sorry for their loss

but I am so late

Elvis Lives Indiana

Detail, BenWah's Garage, originally uploaded by DRheins.

Corn country garage / Elvis lives Indiana / smoking room only

Street Art, Broad Ripple Village

Street Art, Broad Ripple Village, originally uploaded by DRheins. I pause to admire / street art in the alley way / Broad Ripple is hip!