Beach Hijinks

Are four heads and three bodies
better than
four complete sets?
Who’s asking?

New Smyrna Beach, Florida

Thanks to my friend Paul Manoff who contributed 14 of the 17 syllables that make up this American Sentence

White Rooster

White rooster 
waits beneath roots, 
only roosters here, 
no hens anywhere.

New Smyrna Beach, Florida

three pumps
still there

red
yellow
white

doors shut

gasoline
days done

power lines
slash across
cloud-strewn sky

the shell
suggesting
gasoline

nothing moving

only
the quiet
of something
that used to
happen
here

New Smyrna Beach, Florida

hazy morning

sand lifted
into a small dune

a blue
tricycle

one wheel
turned

toward
the ocean

we cannot see

yellow
tower

red
pavilion

nothing moving

the beach
holding

its breath

New Smyrna Beach, Florida