Origami
Paper
crane after crane
tossed into the bonfire
Come dawn, they take flight - and eclipse
the sun
from Sketchbook, October 2007
Wayfaring Pilgrim
for guitarist Roy Buchanan
Steel strings,
bent just enough
to reach the blue-hazed moods
between the notes, the cobalt tones
of dusk.
The View from Alcatraz
In time,
San Francisco's
skyline will fade away.
This island, these bars, will become
the world.
