Local Poets, Local Inspiration!

The Santa Cruz Weekly chose my poem, Sparkle in this week's Local Poets, Local Inspiration section, check out the link below. Here's the poem:

Sparkle

At the edge--

            spotted stones

                        and roiling kelp.

The day facets me in its diamond.

            Wind-chimes are silent,

Buddha’s stone head bows.

A gap in the fence could tell--

                                       mouth opens,

               closes on a dahlia,

on a rosebush stripped to thorns.

A beheaded sunflower stem

holds a hummingbird’s silhouette.

Bees comb and primp the blonde sky.

            Waves fall down--

spotted stones

and roiling kelp.

        Shadows slink and slip

with the earth’s music.

                    With a mouth full of stones, I sing.

Local Poets, Local Inspiration