blue note book poems

i)

little book tucked

back pocket deep

40 lost poems

ii)

two novices paddle past

moments from great learning

cats hate canoes

iii)

welcome to our campsite

bottle of Off, mosquito coils

covered in morning frost

iv)

early fall fire crackles

smoke through hemlock boughs

pinecones snap

v)

peanut butter smores melt

marshmallow erupts  - burns

drips over monk robes

vi)

grass is long - damp

flattened in a trail

to log pile edge

vii)

meal remnants sit

hardening kimchi fried rice

empty soju bottles clink

viii)

driveway basketball thunder

real thunder along the seaway

monk settles on porch

ix)

axe shatters...splatters

through rotten deck wood

monk cuts new board

x)

old Zellers work shirt

worn steel toe boots

flat pencil in baseball brim

xi)

fire wards off late spring snow

four finger single malt pour

wards off heavy day