Flow

deserted highway
passing through
a headlight world

Xmas Day

Christmas snow
Cardinals huddled in
a possumhaw

a peaceful cove for
PB&J sandwiches
Christmas lunch

overnight snow
blue jays crowd around
the cat's bowl

Solstice

Made it up and out for the Solstice Eclipse but waited to take this this morning at almost moon set

 merry winter - the days are getting longer

458 Years

Since the Last total lunar Eclipse on the Winter Soltice 

Tonight's Moon

The Eclipse

Fall Haiga



Railing

Against complications I am the worst to succumb
It is an iPhone this time - hope to return it to the status of tool as opposed to
an object of obsession.
The camera and applications for editing are inspiring and amazing and just down right
Fun!

West

Kinetic Sculpture

Someone has put up hundreds or more like 1000s of these kinetic sculptures all over Osage County, Oklahoma.

Chain Of

Haiku Autumn

.:|:|:|:.
cross amber hills
awandering
this rocky road

Fall winds
bring a hard rain
of acorns

in the fell wood
lifeless branches creak
a murder of crows

backyard plumeria

Indian Summer

.
amber winds brush
cross the prairie
Indian Summer

prairie wind

.
late summer prairie
the harrier hangs on
a washed sky

N No park

petals

su árbol
los pétalos, caídos
llenar sus huellas
 
their tree
in her footprints
fallen petals

Let It Be

Chilocco

A significant place and story of Oklahoma history that too many people know nothing of.

Okalahoma Historical Society link
CHILOCCO INDIAN AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL

National Park Service link
Chilocco Indian Agricultural School

Chilocco National Alumni Association
Chilocco Indian School History

Chilocco School of Beauty  -- school song during the last years it was open.
On the broad and sweeping prairie, 'neath the skies of blue
stands our lovely alma mater, alma mater true

Indian braves and Indian maidens, walking hand in hand
great our past we face the future in this glorius land.

Oh Chilocco school of beauty, may she ever be
filled with courage, pride and honor, love and loyalty!

You are either ON the bus or...

the Old Man

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the river
bloated with mud‘n sorrow
looses it bounds

.   

 
.

the red water
waves lap against
a bedroom door

Creating Paradise

the sweltry  night
a trace of champa blooms
her ghost

Cactus Flowers

roar & boom

o

moon rise
over the fire
the bullbat roar

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day’s up
down along the river here
nighthawks boom

o

unn

Memories

.
he thinks of
his dead wife's hands
another EKG

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slicing peaches
to preserve
summer vacation
.

3XTruck

Cactus Flower

August

the hot night
naked in bed tempted by
distant thunder

of Love

drifting

her silhouette with
each breath of wind
fragrant moonlight

barn 3

every morning

oblivious to
the tragedy she jogs through
a stain of blood

dawn

nearing dawn
a slow breeze cools
blood from the wreck

Aspen to Crested Butte

motorcycle

from this morning’s wreck
a stain of blood
the waning moon

desert

night streams past
this pool of light
a moonless desert highway

Dionysius the Younger

no horse hair
suspends the golden sword
a simple meal

dusk

summer's dusk
evening falls into
the rising tide

A Cool Respite

spirit animals

/ / / /

time/hope



fitting/contrary


always/never

what is self

the slow thickening

 of old panes

these years

Our History

The night of November 26, 1868, Black Kettle, a peace Chief of the Southern Cheyenne having heard that Army cavalry were in the vicinity had decided to move his winter encampment closer to the other villages camped along the Washita valley in western Oklahoma. At dawn on the 27th, (the fourth Thursday in November) four battalions – about 700 soldiers – of the 7th U.S. Cavalry under the command of Lt. Col. George Custer attacked the snow bound village. The number of Cheyenne casualties reported ranges from the 300 later claimed by Custer to only 13 described by the Indian captives. Black Kettle and his wife Medicine Woman were killed. Numerous other women and children were killed and captured to use as human shields during Custer’s return to Fort Supply.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/waba/home.htm

http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/W/WA037.html 

November winds still carry
the sound of battle
on the Washita

along the Washita
sand plums fruit where the children
and women died

lingering voices

I like it out here

BUILDING CLOUDS

Suddenly

insight comes in an instant, a moment of pure awareness.

Known as Suddenlys - these lines are vestiges of spontaneous discernment.

I started writting them in 1985
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Suddenly, in a copse of trees,
                  a fog shrouded field,
                  her arms enfold him in continuing being.

Suddenly peacefilled,
his head on her shoulder soft golden morning fog.

Suddenly, all his fits & beginnings
are swallows before the storm.


Suddenly, his smugness is an old
western movie façade.

Suddenly, a sadness appears
sliding down the tendrils 
smoke from his cigar.

Suddenly roused by her roaring he senses

blood on the grass.


Suddenly, flying is merely a matter
of concentration.

impression of red

of wind

fading

daybreak
the slow fade of
emergency sirens

Past & Future

night walking

night a foot
in chase through the pines
the quarter moon

Windy Morning

Holding It Together

dancing the night away

a walk

next door

a noon garden
the neighbor's bulldog
still snoring

& 9

the endless rattle
these one hundred bones
‘round the well of time

fields of gold

chairs

grandmother's ghost

call

at the window
her favorite chair
the hospital number

World Cup

giant toadstool
a young boy scores
the winning goal

The Arbuckles II

pricklypearspillintothecañonwrensong

The Arbuckles

willow

Nodding

July Sunday
as the congregation nods
a field of sunflowers

unexpected examples of unusual beauty too

unexpected examples of unusual beauty

Wheelock Academy

with a view

very best view
in town
cemetery on the hill 

Old Style

Scissortails

summer plains
miles of fence and wind
waiting scissortails

Plumeria

Earth Air Water

red