summer kites champagne raccoons

red and blue circles
intertwining kite tails
circle each other

pirate voyage plane
too much action in the sky
flying above kite

parasailers float
“hot blooded check it and see”
playing hotel left

twin banana boats
do not stand between the signs
exit or enter

you are too cruel
if you play ” don’t be cruel”
again carolina girl

hot donna summer left
right side “don’t be cruel”
yesterday’s choices

donna summer wins
we “celebrated the times”
didn’t “back it up”

champagne five raccoons
will not celebrate on my
roof top anymore

nor hurricanes
entering through the baseball diamond
cutout in roof

bright green bobblehead
lizard bobbing head three times
every step he takes

chase your peanut butter
crackers with pretzel rod
nice hawaiian punch

–

Blue Jay

standing top pool shed
bossing me around
i don’t know what you’re saying

–
*
(lizard’s first appearance
since he was a baby
dancing poet mate

knowing three lizards
they’re all different colors
so we don’t get confused)

little b-i-t-c-_

“are you following me” <—–: she
she was playing on the ropes
he was also

"my mom said to play
with you while she studies"<—— : he
"play with THAT little girl " <——- :she

listening haiku
purple floating next to two
remembering hour

she rudely left him
comes back and wants his goggles
then she plays with him

"can i ask you how
do you hold your breath so long
under the water" <—- : he

" i wait til i see
you come up and i hold my
breath one more second" <—– :she

haiku from heaven
cannot believe eight and ten
speaking in haiku

splashing sunglasses
they go to warm baby pool
and leave me in peace

i'm all she has left
"am i the only eight year
old in here right now <—-: she

–
* 6/10 i knew what this would be named as soon as she asked the little boy rudely if he was following her. he was just sitting on the rope & she was too & i was sitting next to them. and then the nerve , like a little sociopath, she came back from the deep end , because she decided she wanted something from him, his goggles.
they are playing who can drown first & the one time she lost , she blamed him for kicking her.he didn’t , but he barely brushed her. it’s all in the court transcript.

her mother never looked up from texting , until she was ready to go home. ninety nine percent of the time, i wait until the last second to think of a title.

lizard royale

white stucco lizard
royal blue tail across wall
favorite color

between sea and pool
“you are the sun you are the”
lizard runs on fence

in time to music
he stops in certain places
running very fast

training as greyhound
flew in on air jamaica
he will catch rabbit

“every move you make”
running stopping and breathing
“i’ll be watching you”

nineteen seventies
why is every song they sing
in a time machine

–
(lizard was running
in beat to bar reggae band
both entertaining)

earlier that day, tom not tim duncan

wearing red one piece
she’s sipping red daiquiri
white towel on head

just as you are thinking
it’s about 2:30
man shouts to his wife

“what time is it honey”
at that very minute
she said 2:30

he’s wearing a watch
must not be waterproof
memory bad as mine

“you don’t like go carts
that’s on my bucket list lucy
love the grand prix”

i love pontiac
tom duncan pontiac
greer s.c.

“lucy was an
exceptionally clean baby”
“found out it was us”

“they adapt to you
the third one does what we do”
“first is the hardest”

“it’s about a
twenty minute ride to grand prix
i bet she’ll pass out”

“especially if
we put something in her belly
got some CHILI”

best bucket list
i will not kick the bucket
are numbers one and last

“i want to put on
my my my my my boogie shoes
boogie with you”

6/4 before ringo

blue men pool men

their hair royal blue
professional tennis match
heads turning left right

staring for hours
quite a sight in bright sunlight
three guys and a girl

the two blue men group
lotion on each other’s backs
dive and jump in pool

why are yall staring
peer not at your peers so long
take a chill pill man

are you wondering
chlorination’s reaction
water blue enough

party of four
having wonderful time in pool
colorful floating

radiant floats
blue sea blue pool and blue men
negating your blues

next day asking golf
cart if he had seen blue hair
just at that second

coming around corner
bob asked how i did that
bluer and bluest

moral or punchline
before entering army
dye your hair royal blue

your boyfriend also
bring younger looking parents
come here for a week

—
i’m so dumb i thought
they were part of blue men group
feared they would lose blue

thirsty bluebird swim with me

blackbird on dish
giving a piece of his mind
sounds like morse code.
`
bluebird lands on rope
takes six sips of chlorine
i say nooo each time

you have a shower
sprinklers puddles and spicket
why must you do this.
`
I’m a little Blackbird looking for a Bluebird

“Never had no happiness
no fun caress all over
east to west ”

” Blue as anyone
can be clouds all i ever
see sun forsakes ”

`

postliminary
bluebird sipping cement pond
can’t be the same one

born to be alive
his fat head under each time
he’s hard of tasting

same satellite dish
you are the same silly bird
loves radiation.
`
Radioactive

” the apocalypse
oh i’m radioactive
feel it in my bones ”

permission to board

~
i pet a dog and
i liked it he was tall
no leaning over
~
balcony cardinal
girlfriend flew up to meet him
he fed her by beak.
~
if the dolphin feel
like coming to the boat
they have permission.
~

while in the restroom
her husband bought a car
couple were engaged

~
fighting for land
haven’t “come a long way baby”
five thousand years
~
“don’t go in seven feet
mama knows CPR
but she can’t swim”.
~
kuthrapoly,
poly sci,polly want a cracker,
polygamy

~
ducks politely surround
until bread goes
inside their mouths.

~
“feel free to do
other things while you wait”
thank-you computer.
~
mom says stop kicking
dad says leave here alone
just having fun
~
how old is too old
to cry because you don’t
want to go home.

~
“why would i bring
your sunglasses” maybe because
you love your husband.
~

summer is here to stay !

i’m refusing
to say goodbye to summer
you can’t make me.
`
`
stream of consciousness
many have said this
had to look it up
.
how can i be doing
something if i don’t
know what it is.
.
i’m just a person
stumbling upon haiku month
february.

`

trying to fit
as many on page as
humanly possible.
`
`
like this:

if i had my say
which apparently i do
won’t say bye!

`

shark head in surf
appears as though he doesn’t
need bottom half.

`
men always asking
me to get in the pool
get a commission?

`

favorite kind of a man
one who says see you
tree o’ clock .

`

everyone tells
me schedule can’t even
remember own.

`
if someone is
a leader you better take
a hard look.

`
ants hate this
vinegar in tea cup
crawling on rim.

`

why would anyone
want to eat a vinegar
potato chip?

`

you can’t strangle
a man with a large neck
not that i want to

`

tapping his head
why is he doing that
maybe a V8?

`
sneaking out
it’s the fastest way the softest
way and coolest way.

`

if your name
ends in vowel then can
i call you gumba ? (friend)

`

helicopters three
hovering above do not
“beam me up”.

parent haiku

“everything about
your life is the most tragic
i have ever heard”.

it was may
thought he was talking to me
but a 4 year old.

i thought wow
people have said that to me
funnier to her.
–

(Daddy wants the Beach)

“we do what Regan
wants to do then we do what
mommy wants to do.

now we do what daddy
wants to do everybody
gets a turn”.

“and it goes like this”

a day in haiku:
you can “ring my bell”
playing on the market floor
take me by suprise
`
Chocolate Teddy Bear
hula hoop contest winner
say’s that’s his name.
`
“cupid shuffle”

“down down do your dance
we gone show you how it go
walk it by yourself”
`
(he has a tattoo too)
man in pool baseball
cap beer in left hand playing
frisbee with the right.
multitasking and
singing boys round here drinking
that ice cold beer.
`
(Bride at 69)

grandma and grandpa
married ten years to sweetie
second marriages
`
lightning has struck
another one bites the dust
d j packs it up
`
if m&m’s melt
only in your mouth then why
are my fingers blue?

`
Herbalife Greenberg
a friend of cnbc
Herbalife Ali.
you can call me Al
lost two restaurants in the crash
have a friend too.
`
in thirty years
haven’t learned to put signs
on both sides of planes.