My Shark
climbs trees
convinced that the fruit
will be easier to catch
than scattery fish.
My shark believes
(like most predators)
that whatever it wants
it can do
but I expect
I’ll find its bones
embedded in the bark
of something impossible.
My English
translates itself.
It knows there are
other languages
that send it texts
but it assumes these
are frauds and disguises.
All those so-called
other languages
are codes to hide
messages really in English
until the translator arrives
traitor dictionary in hand.
My Subject Matter
arrives uncalled-for.
It pretends to give
me a choice
but then places
top of the list
what it wants of me.
It is everything
and that list is finite
of a number
inconceivable
except my subject matter
listed it at “one.”
What Do You Mean When You Start at the Beginning of the Alphabet?
A rolling stone gathers no meaning
A stitch in time saves meaning
A bird in the hand is worth two in the meaning
A chain is only as strong as its weakest meaning
A change is as good as a meaning
A drowning man will clutch at a meaning
A fool and his money are soon meaning
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single meaning
A little learning is a dangerous meaning
A miss is as good as a meaning
A place for everything and everything in its meaning
A rising tide lifts all meaning
Absence makes the heart grow meaning
Adversity makes strange meaning
All that glitters is not meaning
All roads lead to meaning
All’s well that ends meaning
An ill wind that blows no one any meaning
Actions speak louder than meaning
A bad workman blames his meaning
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single meaning
All good things come to a meaning
An empty vessel makes much meaning
A picture is worth a thousand meanings
A
stitch in time saves meaning
