Moscow's Homeless

afraid of freezing solid; they walk Moscow's streets without stopping: homeless apocalypse

at a funeral

at a funeral: flowers, tears, coffee with friends, soul satisfied

Nightmares

bathed in his own sweat; in his solitude, unending nightmares

Autumn's shroud

dry, brown leaves cover a churchyard: autumn's shroud

Beer & Hurricanes

on an old fire escape, they enjoy their last cold beers in the wake of Sandy

a riff on Acton

power corrupts: so too, inertia

morning downpour

a sudden morning downpour: cheated by a pocket umbrella

the work of Creation

sunlight reflected from wet pavement: I smile.

Poverty

hard rain falling on a tin shack roof -- poverty's soundtrack

Birches

birches tightly bunched together -- queuing

the Suwannee

tea-colored river - passes by so slowly; I think of lunch

Hunter-Killer

an alligator's snout visible is it swims -- hunter-killer

Indifference

a hard rain falls on a roiling sea -- indifference

Praying at the Western wall

at the Western wall
a small boy prays

overheard by doves

Ambrosial

that lemonade after coming in from the noon sun  - ambrosial

Rainy, summer morning

dawn intrudes - so timidly -- rainy, summer morning

13 de marzo massacre

Waters engulfed their young lives - the children onboard 13 de marzo -- sunk by the Castros.

Milica Mandic's Gold Medal

her golden moment
for an entire nation

Slava Milica !

The Perseids or Summer Love

two shooting stars
lighting their way across the sky
first summer love

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal -- from his pen flowed prose with grace -- and acid bite.

Summer afternoon

clouds drift by so slowly--  summer afternoon

July 20, 1969

he dips his toe in an unknown sea -- Tranquility

the Unspeakable at Aurora, Colorado

dark knight, darker night, unspeakable -- Aurora, Colorado

Murder of the Romanovs -- 17 July 1918

in a crowded basement -- their summer palace -- they hold one last audience

Summer memories

one soft breeze brings back a long lost summer

gray fox and silver moon

a gray fox stalks a silver moon

two turtles

on a mossy log two turtles doze

slice of mango

one last slice of mango to be savored, greedily

Rainstorm

a rainstorm leaves so many shimmering puddles

Night blooming jasmine

Night blooming jasmine: scent of so many memories

Higgs Boson

So tiny a particle makes the universe so weighty: Higgs Boson found

Vagina monologues: feminists defying the 'patriarchy' by reducing themselves to a part of their anatomy.

Fidel's scribbles

troubled mind of a patriarch long past his autumn : his senseless scribbles.

Taste setters

silverfish : do they find monostich an acquired taste?

D-Day - 6 June 1944

beaches stained with the life blood of heroes and cowards both.

Sea Grapes

wind rustling through a sea grape stand: chimes of summer

small, white hands caress

small, white hands caress a rocky shore at dawn

11-M -- remembering the victims of the Madrid Metro bombing.

Train 21431, Train 21435, Train 21713, Train 17305 191 dead 11 March 2004 Madrid.

Wolf Moon

light from the Wolf Moon, on newly fallen snow, betrays a field mouse

day laborers

blank faces, dull eyes : day workers gather on a sidewalk waiting to be hired.

faces

faces at a bus stop early in the morning stare back dully.