Archive of poetry

Alliterative morning

on June 15th, 2009 in Linguistics, San Francisco by | Comments Off

Today I Skimmed Schmaltz, and was Rawked at by a Raven. Raven with Sausages by quinet The schmaltz came from a mess of chicken soup I made. A thick layer of chicken fat rose to the top overnight and was skimmed off and used to season the cat’s breakfast. Chicken…

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Haiku for the fog

on February 8th, 2008 in Life, San Francisco by | 1 Comment

2 AM awake Awake, asleep, and awake Foghorn on the Bay There’s no sky today in San Francisco, just fog. Outside, buses and dogs and flowers are memory-distant. I’ve never heard the Bay foghorn from my bed. I happened to wake at the right time. My dad was raised on…

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Recent goings-on, presented in rhyming couplets

on October 18th, 2005 in Life by | Comments Off

1. An identity crisis might ensue, Skipping the SLA meeting for a workshop on XHTML2. *Sorry SLA. You’re great and all, but semantic, accessible, device-independent webpages whoop your ass. 2. A morning dogwalk at six. Instead of eating the cat, he just licks. * Dogfriend Odin has been staying with…

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