as i was looking back
recently you came to mind
that summer afternoon
we floated
down the Yorba Linda river
on separate inner tubes
you in a yellow bikini
as yellow and black butterflies
flitted indifferently along the bank
where we stopped on a sandbar
bending back the warm grass
under bare feet
the blue sky streaked with white clouds
as fleeting as our addictive youth
the sun’s heat rising on our lithe tan bodies
Self-deception As Self-knowing
It’s all a matter of
warped mirrors
like the mirror maze
I stood before once
as a boy
at the Fun House
in Playland
near Golden Gate Park
in San Francisco
with animatronic Laffing Sal
cackling her frightful
laugh at life’s very deceptions
for whoever stood there
entranced trying to understand
life’s delusory concave
and convex images.
My
poems and short fiction have appeared in various print and online
journals including: Monkeybicycle, Pindeldyboz, Pen Pusher,
CrossConnect, Word Riot, Foliate Oak, Dark Sky Magazine, Mannequin Envy, and Bellowing Ark,
among others. My wife and I live on a small farm in Yamhill, OR, and I
teach creative writing and literature at George Fox University, south of
Portland, OR.
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