Thank you, Daniel, for your patience. Tonight (now that my grading is finally over) I'd like to post your poems that you sent a while back. The beginning of the summer is a fine time to return to nature. Since it has been raining constantly in Maryland these past few days, Daniel's poems will have to do for now.
Haiku
bat wings echoing
Owyhee County mineshaft
frightened spelunkers
Haiku
beady eyes, grey tail
popcorn puff clenched between teeth
scurries across floor
Majestic Mighty Mo
From Montana headwaters,
widening winding river flows—
Majestic Mighty Mo.
Steeped with prehistoric denizens.
Paddle-fish and sturgeon,
false-map and leatherback turtles—
majestic pisces and terrapins
of the Majestic Mighty Mo.
Gavins Point and Oahe.
Fort Randall and Big Bend
all help ebb the flow
of the Majestic Mighty Mo.
Turbines churning,
create an electric electron flow--
lighting the prairie region
surrounding the Majestic Mighty Mo.
Coursing its way through Dakota
like a life-sustaining artery.
Majestic Mighty Mo.
Mistaken Identity
The tiny serpent
lay beside my pitfall trap
seeming to want
my attention.
Gingerly, I picked it up
around the middle—
taking in the glorious features
of this tiny bullsnake.
But the color was wrong,
too red—not brown,
like the juvenile of
Pituophis cantenifer—
but rather like the red
of the juvenile Coluber constrictor,
which turns grayish-green
as an adult blue racer.
However, the dorsal pattern
was not quite right,
and the girth—
hefty, not slender.
I looked at the tail end
of this docile diminutive serpent
and then I noticed
the keratinous button of youth.
Haiban
An ancient planet, an ancient society, post apocalyptic survivors of a world irradiated and ruined by alien invasion. Forced underground, a subterranean existence necessitated the evolution of an alternative life style. Eyes functional but sightless in a world with no light, these fossorial denizens tunnel blindly searching for nutrient, sustenance and the opportunity to procreate during any chance encounter with another of its kind…extinction thwarted by hermaphroditic evolution.
nocturnal worms meet
evolution takes no chance
hermaphrodite love
Haiku (Scorpion)
poison tail poised
field cricket frozen in fear
pinned on poison point
Haiku
side-winding serpents
chisel-toothed kangaroo rats
telltale sandy trails
Spearfish Creek
Spearfish Creek
freezes
from the bottom up.
Current too swift
to freeze
It is backwards
and sacred
like the Lakota Heyoka.
It flows all winter long,
satiating the thirst
of the deer,
the raven,
the lone traveler
and all the denizens
of the Black Hills.
It is Mni Wakan,
sacred waters
that never freeze.
would certainly fit well with Daniel's poems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtSpiF5q-Cg
I'd like to include their "Moon Song" as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtSpiF5q-Cg
Below is Haden's "Taney County" from his 1986 album Quartet
West: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=DClOeajxGf0&list=PL2AuIlz4sz6XCk50d9SLOfO2_yqJqbs4i
I'll finish with Pat Metheny's version of the Beatles' "And I Love Her": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYcZ6s3z1jg
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