Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Springtime, Please

There was amazing fog this one morning in March




The setting sun really illuminated these fresh white blossoms





I found this fungus growing on an ancient fossil rock face while hiking in central Texas





Here's a shot of some spring blossoms right outside of the Meadows Building




A lovely day in my back yard



A dust storm spring afternoon

Clouds gathering at dusk before a spring storm

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Austin Poem #1

Tonight: Feel the jive
Feel the pulse
Feel the human force!

The music there
was: sexy, vibrant, funky-
raucous, loud, full-


Bathed in warm reds,
blue splashes,
silhouette heads clap and sway.
We stand and groove,
Yell! Who cares?

Red-night-basement-throbbing-
pulse-beat-up,on,your,feet-
stomping-cheering-dancing-
want,some,more-kind-of-Music-
Give it to me! In
dripping pints, steaming mugfulls, heaped earfulls:

Sheets of music
Falling like a living waterfall-
over me!
Fall, soak, you throbbing music force!

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Some poems of a common thread

I want something from this air.
This night air.
This day air.
This clear, sweet, dewy refreshment air.

I want it to be more, more than it is!
More than a scent, more than a sense!
Experience! Joy! Power!

Fill my lungs, O sky, with a jubilant levity, an effervescent piety!
I drink you in, in and in and more and more,
it is nothing more than it can be, nothing more than it will be,
and I am sated only with longing.

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Silhouette hay rolls along the field,
Night drive by shoots down past.
Looking left, a sense
with no words,
no tapestry I can weave,
no tale I can spin,
no thing I can really create;
My words are held together:
with chewing gum and sticky tack,
band-aids, too.
wobbling, wavering, worthless!

O that I could paint this sky,
so warm and wet,
fuzzy stars blinking sheepish through dim lids

Monday, February 11, 2008

Sunsets, Please: My Favorites

Here are some of my favorite sunset photos I've taken. If only I had more. Feel free to comment with your own photos if you'd like.
SMU, Meadows Building, Hillcrest side, April 2007

Plano, Texas 2005

Plano, Texas 2005

North Galveston Island, Gulf side, July 2007


Lake Ray Roberts Campsite, December 2006

Galveston Texas, Bayside. July 2007


Wednesday, February 6, 2008

A Cold Weather Poem

Tonight my breath
Sings icy, silent rhapsodies
To the stars:
Who glow, doleful and blue,
before the moon's magnificent, beaming face


I drink in the night air
which flows down my throat
in frosty rivulets,
shivering my heart and
numbing my lungs and
making my fingers burn like candles

Sunday, February 3, 2008

The Man and the Sky

Sorry. I can't put my story here anymore. No one likes copyright infringement, right?