Sunday, April 13, 2025

SkyKu: Spring



North 33 degrees 42 minutes 29.80 seconds

West 111 degrees 54 minutes 2.81 seconds


perched in ironwoods

night birds report their chirp verse

breaking the quiet


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a veil of clouds shrouds

the moon with iridescent 

prismatic black pearl


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dry spring zephyrs move 

through the palo verdes low

moon, mars, jupiter


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the penny on my 

roof reflects the light of moon

like a silver dime


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orion exits

until it swings back eastward

in autumn’s advent


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above the foothills

an egg shaped moon sinks away

down in the cool night


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tusk moon over buttes 

an effulgence of silk clouds 

a scream of quiet


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rain clouds clear for a 

blood orange moon waning over

the dark desert hills


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ironwood and the

saguaro silhouetted 

against a thin cloud


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a great owl in the 

middle of the road takes flight 

from my car headlights 


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no venus no moon

no trees moving in the wind

quiet still as stars


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two red tailed hawks hunt

rabbits on the house drive way

in the early day


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like a perfect chalk

circle around the full moon

marks approaching rain


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earth in spring pushes

insects out from the cool sand

and stones in the wash


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walls of igneous

canyons carved in the desert 

sediment and clay


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hawk lands on highway 

lamp post this afternoon with

out secret service


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the advent of Spring

animals flowers and mice 

you can hear the owls


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meteor flicks quick

like a quantum particle

inside a vacuum


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in the 3am 

the push and pull of the winds 

stars hit peak at dawn


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moon holding Earth-shine 

low over the dark hillside

a pristine spring night


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the owl ghost star and 

jupiter set west mars high 

and faint above town


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moon sets west now red 

as mars 3am hour 

of the gods and stars


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collapse on your lap

moon sets west like blood in dirt

dream alert tonight


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moon slips behind the

black clouds with mars and airplane 

time to go back in


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geometrical 

cosmic tag the whole night sky 

a big line drawing 

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leaving a giant 

wriggling worm a sky glow worm 

winds over the trail


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aphids appear to

circumnavigate the edge 

of a candle’s glass


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loving the light two 

aphids the color of lime

battle the light breeze


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dance on the surface 

of a smartphone's glare and do 

a little boogie


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on the roof in the 

hour of god mars trucks west 

pulls the milky way


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the aphids are now

wearing parkas because it

is so god damn cold


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skies open up the 

heavens there is a gentle 

breeze blowing tonight


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collective light from 

a billion years hits the back 

of our open eyes


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there was a time to

remember lean back the head 

and dream of the day


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a meteor drops

answering brilliant in the 

east over the hills


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dark new moon tonight

dipper mars jupiter hang 

out now a slight breeze


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the winds blow through the

dark mighty evening and now

I must go to sleep


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weird when you start to

shine a flashlight everywhere

the cool wind will cease 


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a gem in my beak 

from the rubble you leave has

planted a new day


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moonlight 3am

just me and the nature noise

across the desert


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jupiter sails west 

moon saturn mars lifting east 

sacred silent night


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a world without the 

animal is a coffin 

of sirens screaming


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full passover moon

next jupiter to the east 

then falling star west 


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rich scent of mesquite 

sage and acacia tree

Ho'hokam grass too


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indigenous trees 

grow upside down serpent holds 

the moon in its mouth 


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wild fires burn in the 

north woods the invincible 

trickster of fury


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Dali Lama is 

not here he's over the hill

crimson crescent moon


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should be nice tonight

the moon glow grows chasing west 

jupiter north west


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in the last two nights

you could see the fingers of 

the old milky way 


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slow red moon sets west 

May wild flowers bring June wild 

fires burn for months


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couldn't sleep much last 

night with out the power this 

morning I woke up


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mars skates over the 

city lights glow dipper dive

bombs in the dark west 


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in the sandwich of 

the evening a gun metal 

sky mars moon sets west


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skeleton light years
3 o'god in the morning

bloody stained half moon


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all night dreaming of

bright angels in the millions

ascending my spine 


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into the heaven 

of my brain in the morning

the sun wakes me up


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the sun the big sun

waiting Memorial Day 

phoenix bright hot light


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homeless head for Flag

rich head for San Diego 

the rest of us sleep


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moon waxes gibbous 

courting mars stage south south west 

in gun metal sky


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when the night birds sing 

earlier some ants battled

in the cool kitchen 


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driving all life in

a circadian rhythm

there is no escape


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there was a reason 

he wore a blood stained toga

Komodo dragon


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mars hovers over 

a wolf spider on flagstone

wind stirs desert dirt 


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moon hangs in cobweb 

clouds over Superstitions

a cream glow smearing 


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2 am breezes

all wild life shrugs heavens clouds

hearts silence rises


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her orchestra is

leaving nothing but muses 

of eternity 


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womb moon in space-time

now free in cloudless night sky

tiny planes blink out


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moon rising through strands 

of clouds breaking through the east 

crescent moon moves low 


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cassiopeia 

low in the north sky tonight

jupiter moon dusk


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saturn mars south by

south west vega above my 

head a shooting star


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moon saturn south now

over ghost clouds of satin

ironwood shadows


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morning cool breezes

birds chirp doves coo airplanes land

air brakes squeak gate slams


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3am hour 

moon, stars, trees, helicopter

cool, calm and silent


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still no animals 

eating each other alive

no planes in the sky


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no helicopters

no sirens no distant groan

of last call traffic


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the owl drops from a 

canopy of cottonwoods

claws a bird to death


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blood orange moon sinks 

west taking jupiter out 

mars south with saturn


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jupiter rising 

from the east a full flower 

blue moon and saturn


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mind tagged with song of 

memory quiet falls from 

deep space the heart beats


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june new moon blue sky 

fresh heat people meet light air 

wind in hair bare feet 


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walking talking in

to the mist of the threshold 

of the summer time


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lightning flies midnight

bird songs saguaro blooms doves 

loom clouds plume from north 


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half moon heading west

jupiter near mid summit

in a soup of billions


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dark matter and light 

from times before earth began

above the desert 


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breezy cool evening

the invisible invites 

through the sigh song trees

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the saguaro blooms

tuning forks stand food for doves

eons of monsoons


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in the lightning blasts 

the saguaro boils to death

leaving long glass roots


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last days of may mars 

rises east chases saturn

chases jupiter


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soon to be june with 

her blue white skies and damning 

hell hot heat hits streets


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look east mars rises 

then saturn jupiter near 

moon and arcturus














 



Friday, April 11, 2025

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





Sunday, March 16, 2025

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

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

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 

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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


Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Wed Jan 29, 2025

the air blurs blue gray
drops in slow over the hills
a cool desert rain

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

 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

Tuesday, January 21, 2025