Summer hiatus repost

Brief Affair

Word was things had gone  

Stale between them 

Sleek as she is 

Him handy in a tight spot

But the other night 

When I flipped

On the light in the bathroom 

I found them trading tangent points

On the vanity 

Bristles deeply meshed 

Handles lightly touching 

The envy of those two 

Coffee loving Joe’s in the kitchen

Spotted later side by side 

In the sink rims stealing 

An infinite figure eight kiss

Sharing a bit of undergarment 

Gossip a rumored stowaway 

Discovered fresh 

From the dryer burrowed 

Within a pair of my own 

Hell I wore them that way

Who am I to judge 

Their brief affair.  

Squirreled away

Patio Lights

Cygnus, Ursa’s Major and Minor

Cassiopeia and the Big Dipper

Burn cool in the heavens tilting above

This darkened patio thanks to you, so

Furtive, so clever, so industrious

All those buried backyard cache’s studding

A three dimensional mental map, your

Expression impassive, wall eyed, tail like

Smoke from a cigarette burning in an

Ashtray, buffeted plume I would proudly

Display from a whipping aerial back

When cars still had them.  Inefficient use

Of energy in the form of precious

Calories burned and for what exactly

If not to cast me into eternal

Darkness with your rabidly yellowed teeth

Retreating to some high leafy redoubt

Dreaming acorns while ice melts in a glass

On a table next to this chair where I

Sit gazing heavenward connecting feint

Pin pricks into rampaging rodent shapes.