4/11

April Eleventh 

I can hear 
my DNA when 
I talk with my sister
laughing over 
late afternoon 
saki and yellow tail 
still figuring out
mom and dad bullshit

past ten

the stretch of 

my mid-life crisis
has corresponded

to the rise of fascism 
which makes a lot of sense 

when you think about it

Tonight 

the screaming sirens 

in the distance 

the sound of engines revving
a cool breeze blows 

a scent of sage and rock, 

clouds looming low 

when I blew out the candle

last night sitting 

on my patio

burning a candle

listening to music

on my headphones

when I blew out 

the candle

the music on my 

headphones stopped

Mon Feb 10, 2025

Venus 

drives 

the train 

West

With Jupiter 

Mars and Moon

Wed Jan 29, 2025

the air blurs blue gray

drops in slow over the hills

a cool desert rain

 8:30 pm Wed Jan 22, 2025

rising East, stars

Castor and Pollux with Mars 

make a hockey stick shape

then Procyon shines out in Canis Minor

above me at high noon sits Jupiter 

bright along side Orion the Hunter 

with its cosmic belt

and underneath that 

silver Sirius in Canis Major

Tue Jan 21, 2025

above the mountain
a shining half moon tonight 
serene in the dark

December 13, 2024

waxing gibbous (94% → 98%)
moon sign: ♉︎ → ♊︎
sun sign: ♐︎
friday

almost full moon
shines with Jupiter 
and Orion
rising low East 
as slow meteor 
lobs into view 
with oval white glow
and melts away

SkyKu (Winter)

 

North 33 degrees 42 minutes 29.80 seconds

West 111 degrees 54 minutes 2.81 seconds

the ones who eat the sun live in the west, they turn into lions

—from African bushman folklore

silk fog moves around 

the wet black ironwood boughs

sandy gravel wash

-

in a dream last night

an art gallery and friends 

spoke poems and plays 

-

a full moon halo 

circles orion mid-night 

jupiter shines bright

-

calm night waning moon 

high now orion east sits

near the gemini

-

moon sets in the west 

its like liquid ivory 

seeds float with the moths

-

dry scattered twigs are 

swept up by the wind lifting

into the cold air

-

we think the world will

end every day until

forever the end

- 

  

a meteorite 

falls towards orion’s belt 

scratching a gray streak

-

greasewood is creosote

-

moon glow, trees ink black

the clouds break in to patches

the sky is a quilt

-

a deep soft dusk now

purple blue and flaming peach

stretch the horizon

-

 

sharp and bright venus 

a slice of moon, a star drops

the plane flies away

-  

heart between my ribs

through my eternal eyes the

silent heavens shine

-

rain in the gutters 

a thousand clocks ticking quick

shimmering water

- 

languid flowing flood

the rocks and bubbly mud suds

swirling around trees

-

six vultures spiral 

wide in the upper thermals 

above the boulders

-

a leaf holds a drop 

of consciousness, the wildlife 

close as a fire 

-

that day in your mind

was happening in the night

while you were dreaming

-

blood orange moon now 

disappears on the horizon 

into my dream mind

-

scant inspiration 

to fight the old loneliness 

in the night shadows 

-

tranquility gone
low flying helicopter  

steals sound, not my soul

-

ethereal time 

grace, mirth and contemplation

and hot food cooking

-

sometimes I never 

figure out the meanings of 

songs inside my heart

-

Claus-haiku

the frog beside 

the old pond 

jumps in -Ho Ho Ho

-

full moon high misty 

clouds a fine pastel halo 

in lupine pupils

-

cold full moon tonight

ancestral ghosts travel light

trees move in the wind

-

whistling and snapping

gave us the edge in the hunt

hails the cab in rain

-

sky clears and reveals 

timelessness and space and breath 

from my mouth to yours

-

the slumbering eye 

of a coyote puppy 

in the warm earth den 

-

when it is cold fall  

down into the hallow earth 

when its hot rise up

-

poetry in heart

the dark of death in winter 

we sit near the fires

-

silent, empty, cold, 

house, the wood moves, the plumbing

thumps, and still nothing 

-

silk clouds to hills 

orion high in the east 

a meteor streaks

-

eyes to universe, 

ears to music mind to breath 

heart to soul tonight

-

primary suspects 

moon in taurus, orion 

chases jupiter

-

moon and orion

at twelve o'clock jupiter 

in the east rising 

-

rain wind rumble rain 

wicked cold rain rumbles on

rumble clap splat flash!

-

moon sets west dressed in 

blood orange ivory pod

orion recedes

-

cracks in the columns

burning of laurels the no 

tomorrow's and floods

-

nothing on earth as 

old as earth as fingers dig 

in the cool dark earth 

-

losing view of moon 

venus and palo verdes 

it's all yours Quartzite 

-

low crescent moon sets 

west through the trees on the road

an owl waits for me

-

full moon low over 

the blue foothills after dusk

east of the mountains

-

the moon drops as blood

in a thick night, a chorus 

of coyotes howl

-

in dead now-silence

orion sets in the west 

jupiter still high 

-

mars east, jupiter west 

big rain on the way 

to soak the rest

-

3am skies clear

jupiter near full moon now

a framed orion  

-

it is a dream night 

tastes like a shot of soma

clouds weaving sequins 

-

something tells me when 

I fall asleep I'm going 

to wake up alone

-

messy drippy pomes 

with no sense; draining out from 

my ears, like dumb brains

-

now I lay me down 

to sleep I pray my 

ancient school teachers 

my soul to take 

if I should die 

before I wake 

then publish 

all my writings  

take a cut, get high 

and go fly fishing

-

moon shines through twisted 

acacia limbs, silent 

hill with weight of sky 

-

A Translation of Basho's famous Haiku on Leap Day:

an archeaobatrachia sits

beside ancient vernal wetland

and leaps in - plerp!

--EJ Phxtzu; February 29th, 2016

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clouds veil the moon 

laying through the western dive

-

moon sets now over 

night painted in pollutants 

city of homeless

-

early morning mind 

feeling the weight of the world 

I stand up in pain 

-

our dream mind body 

in motion is like water 

pouring from the grave

-

wind moves over wild 

ghosts walking with hungry eyes

snow in the meadow

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Steve Noettl ©️