Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

black tear drops hang 
 like bird nests; one opens to
  inverted bat signal.

vendors sit behind
 identical piles of fruit;
  a consumer slows...

tight bud opens: 
 imperceptible struggle
  to unpack beauty.

Summer sunset
 glows on the wetlands,
  for a short time.

an autumn sapling,
 red leaves on a stiff twig,
  shakes in the breeze;
 i can't help but think of it 
 as a gray-haired baby.

winding like vines,
 tree branches grow like a cage
  over my head.

sun hits horizon; 
 summer ticks a day off,
  car speeds into darkness.

dense bloom clusters
 of one week are a carpet
  on the ground the next.

tardy deer hunter
 finds a deer grazing beside
  his hunter's stand.

the red hibiscus
 draws attention to itself,
  while pointing downward.