Category Archives: Joan



My Wife

My wife’s a cornucopia—
Spilling science, squash, ceramics—
My home’s a near utopia,
Fashioned by her daemon: manic.
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Posted in Inspiration, Joan

Ceramic Pot Inscriptions

Flirtatious birds flit—
Stalking cats misunderstand—
Unrequited love! Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Joan, Several Short Poems

Further, Joan request for haiku featuring toads, hares, crows, and turtles

Stony, silent toad
Sits—supple tongue, deadly, coiled—
Waiting for a fly. Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Joan, Several Short Poems

Joan’s Special Request: Art project requires short poems featuring pigs

Politicians jest,
Excoriate, mock, score points.
But what principle,
Philosophy, theory, Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Joan, Several Short Poems

Voodoo Biochemistry

I pride myself on being smart and cool.
I understand decay, mortality.
And yet, I cannot fathom the misrule
Of mind trumping corporeality. Continue reading →

Posted in Illusion, Joan, Wisdom

On the Way to the Hospital

One day, driving on Western Avenue
To cheer my reconstructed wife,
A curbside, spastic gumby caught my eye.
One of those puffed-air waving figures
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Posted in Family, Joan, Wisdom