Breezy

Breezy,
or

Aeolian cerebrations*

Somewhere out

in the far field

a pissed-off

cow makes her sound

buzzsaw mating a freight train.

I've lived my life

always

asking what’s next;

now I stand

by the opening dirt

and know.

Still the cool breeze comes

living on the air, to

swirl embrace instigate

couplings of leaves

scatter

the waiting seeds.

September 2011

Posted for   Friday Flash 55  at  the G-Man's

*added for the titillation of the grey matter of said connoisseur of 55's

Friday Flash 55 ~ Pastorale

Pastorale

A large panting old woman
chases a small panting old dog
chasing a large indifferent cow
in punishing heat.

It’s slapstick, but you say
there’s a poem here.
I’m looking for it.

Is it

maybe there,

where two beings

exchange a speaking
shared look of
annoyed patience;

that woman
and someone's dinner?

August 2011

Posted for  Friday Flash 55   at  the G-Man's

Thanks to Brian Miller, of Waystation One  for the inspiration for this one.