sizzle

crackling driftwood fire
raging hungry animal
meet thy virgin dog

Patience

bolted frightened wall
summers curse humanity
flees November rain

picture

summers final day
valley bright in kodachrome
fading misty blue

lady

strange tioga pass
broken hearted Ferdinand
loved lost and kept her

montgomery

misty silent street
empty canyons hurry past
shouting breaking dawn

words

shut your pie hole Tom
talkin trash on Gomppers dad
peas and soup for weeks

feds

out of bounds camping
f u I own the valley
where'd you get those ears?

fury

furious river
heaving down granite canyon
flee captivity

distance

river passes through
cleaving his new land from ours
cheerful noble bear

aeros

El Cap running trail
rythmn quickens lifting off
gliding through the trees

season

Danny lives alone
had once a bear to guide him
turned into a stone

mail break

yosemite man
ambling morning postal walk
baitin sniffing crew

Anchored

red boot animal
savoy gypsy bella dance
gazing leashing me

c dorm

union man and beast
yet grunts and wails attest
neither human be

scrappin

careless morsels left
tai chi master's drunken monkey
grazing shamelessly

insomnia

midnight terrace rage
pounding waves compensating
lighter shade of pale

red pawn

nonchalant v one
losing crux, flailing backwards
surely it's v three

floating

star filled desert sky
skeeters ghosts and aliens
fade to Heidi's eyes

trouble

restless canvas wall
anxious prowling breezes stir
creaking worried pines

cold night

glowing M R bar
taunting fiery coffee glass
forging enmity

Fred's candle

puppets come alive
dancing screaming gasp for air
darkness held at bay

good times

jumbo rocks alone
full moon frost and chicken soup
bold conversations

escape

ram tioga gate
screaming fire down mono grade
plunging silent blue

dozens

stables parking lot
midnight snows arc to the sky
ranger's gift, doughnuts

missing

hawk have you seen her
beyond earth in sun drenched clouds
doe had no answer

marker

her scar in grief born
wounded tree memorial
weeps by silent road

redpoint

confidence was high
pumpkin girl with A D D
stinging gobi knee

stone fu

old warrior crack
punching kicking biting crux
roaring windy jolt

poodles

little caesar reigns
greasy hair greasy smile and
little pink blouses

failings

hobbled by neglect
manpri glamour boys belayed
puppetmaster's toys

picture

high meadow pastels
lemon lime pink summer blue
whip cream granite peaks

urban climber

manpri promenade
hairgel wearing fauntleroys
making mommy proud

wizard

central banker chief
public servant no not quite,
cleptomaniac

kid

Jen plucked a flower
dark autumn forgotten dried
melancholy rohr

rage

methodology
don't make me take my shoe off
study this, honky

philosopher

orange bigblock dude
jack n coke from fresno's poke
valley new age lewd

Sport

leading stale gym crux
though steely claws oohs and ahhs
inspiration sucks

elixir

midnight hearty ales
dancing trouts and sewing routes
sleepy smiley stare

transformer man

monster at the door
creaking floor walkman wailing
floating out to sea

vogue

gym five-twelve no sweat
leading trad up reed's direct
no not ready yet

lunchhour

leering eyes of stone
spiky hair guilty smile she
loses appetite

peoples

taboo fever runs
joy then anguish turns to shame
Oprah filling void

hotel idaho

relax said nightman
camp six bathrobe cigarette
programmed to receive

drunkards

morons cry guilty
lament they lack the skill of
taking naught from naught

scythe

Autumn's reaper cometh
sweet sin ripened fruit sleeps still
dreaming of the Spring

boulder

granite monster friend
If blind I would still know you
years from end to end

mentor

climber magic man
above appears the dancer
below simple brute

cracks

fingerlock and yard
one step off flow like water
sneaking home to sea

yonder

padless solo days
pulling pockets overhung
Johnny's lava claim


schooners one by one
green church gravel milky way
summer luna streaks


picture voices 'twine
co-mingling year with others
Summer's oak remains


night I said I'd call
valley Summer past away
autumn leaves retire

walls

boulder garden room
acrid weed filled overgrown
nursing crimson rose

November

siren song of Spring
breaching dark cave wint'ry mind
her strange voice allures

amiss

gym-hole carnival
campus jerking spectacle
fusing pride and shame

keel

float spirit river
oarless guideless life's buffoon
transcendental mind

apathy

slumber tricked the boy
night like day and day like night
freezing Winter grey

serenity

Moonlit valley chill
howling echos proclaim death
ruthless Winter's peace

fox and chicken

numbers on the wall
sterile key for spineless wretch
Animal goes free

Prater nostra

Sins of his fathers:
duty cries you purify
jungle deep release

chimera

Tori's ozone tent
images in candle light
smoldering remains

quiet please

Boystown quiet hour:
howling drunks, my windmill fists
now hear slow moon rise

Kindlin

Summer's left behind:
knowing anxious darkness lurks
I store Summer's twigs

Fall

mistral calls him there
beyond fragrant vapor shroud
mountain falls away

Todd Skinner

Forlorn granite wall
though Autumn's son departs he
finds no fault in you

Consider...

Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtude e cognoscenza.