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DANCEMASK (iambic petameter)
The pale grass sways in the grim sunlight
A wind whistles through the blades.
And parts the grass like a grounded blight.
The cloven hooves drum on hallowed graves
Her eyes smolder in the hazy heat.
Her flanks bleed with flowered stain
Her hide dark and rough like peat.
And tears fall from her face as rain
To an earth from which she has been shorn
She wails across the desolate distance
Mourning the death of her horn.
Gone in but an instant.
Her sobbing wraith drifts away;
Dancemask's soul has gone astray.
HAIKU
Shivers run my spine,
Rattling my bones.
Fear is a chipmunk.
A DAY ON THE MOUNTAIN (pantoum)
Springy fog sticks to slick pine needles.
The damp snow sags by the lodge.
A trickling stream crosses our path.
Snowballs fly and scatter.
My tall companion cavorts with me.
A trickling stream crosses our path.
Mt. Rainer peeks through the mist.
Fog sticks like cotton, caught on trees.
My breath rasps with the altitude.
Damp snow sags by the road.
Atop a cliff, we eat our noontime meal.
Mt. Rainer leans over my shoulder.
Atop the cliff, we finish our food.
Snowballs fly and scatter.
My tall companion cavorts by my side.
And my breath rasps with the altitude.
ALARM CLOCK (apostraphe)
Ah, wee alarm clock.
How I hate thy face.
You wake me from the sleep of gods,
Deliver me to bleak reality.
How dare you do thus?
Sin of rough caress.
I hate thee, alarm clock.
For every morn in which you ring.
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