The sight of a customer slowly counting and paying

lots of coins sometimes sounds like

the drip…drip…drip of water

for a prisoner in a mostly

silent torture

chamber.

***

National Coin Week (3rd week of April)

reminds me of these thoughts (in this post: they’re its staple).

This poem Coins was in a Milpitas Post issue;

the memory of my poem still does continue.

In its 4/26/24 issue, Orangevale View published my poems “Paper”

and Silly Possibilities for a Silly Person. They’re on pages 5 and 9.

Paper can also be found in this blog via link https://whendeadlinesbecomezombies.wordpress.com/2024/04/10/paper-thats-not-legal-size-does-not-mean-its-illegal/ .

Silly Possibilities for a Silly Person is also in this blog via https://whendeadlinesbecomezombies.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/silly-possibilities-for-a-silly-person/

and (for its intro:)

https://whendeadlinesbecomezombies.wordpress.com/2024/03/31/intro-to-silly-possibilities-for-a-silly-person/ .

Here’s the link to OV View‘s 4/26/24 issue (where they also appear): https://ovview.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Issue-8-Vol-17-4.26-final.pdf .

Two weeks earlier, in its 4/12/24 issue, OV View published my poem More Silly Possibilities for a Silly Person. It’s on page 5.

Here’s the link to the issue: https://ovview.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Issue-7-Vol-17-4.13-final.pdf .

More Silly Possibilities for a Silly Person can also be found in this blog via https://whendeadlinesbecomezombies.wordpress.com/2024/03/23/more-silly-possibilities-for-a-silly-person/ .

Reflecting with the water, a hiker found harbor

(where mood became calmer…

where I ponder)…

Reflecting with the water, a hiker found harbor (where mood became calmer… where I ponder)… Stream

This stream: serene, scenic.

Not easy to leave it

(blue green surreal trip,

a deep drift,

healing, unspoken

agreement)…

***

Earth Day (the 22nd of April)

reminds me of these thoughts (in this post: they’re its staple).

My poem and photo share a name, and that name is Stream.

They feature Mother Nature (whom folks should esteem).

High, winged, or feathered creatures

get close together.

Soaking up waves of pleasure,

they savor rainbowy nectar.

High, winged, or feathered creatures get close together. Soaking up waves of pleasure, they savor rainbowy nectar.

***

The high of 420 (on the 20th of April)

reminds me of these thoughts (in this post: they’re its staple).

My poem and my painting both share the name High Winged…

The sentence after this one is about timing.

While this April 21 post may feel one day late,

I’d rather post it now than have to wait.

Shoes (normally found on a surface or on feet)

strangely hang on wire above a street.

Could hanging shoes be a warning or a message?

Minds are what these shoes could mess with.

Maybe they’re part of a legend.

They could be a symbol of a change, departure, or end.

Perhaps they mark territory (more so if they have scent).

Wire over street is where lost shoes could’ve went…

***

National Hanging Out Day (19th of April)

reminds me of these thoughts (in this post: they’re its staple).

This poem Shoes was in a Milpitas Post issue;

the memory of my poem still does continue.

And while I did not submit its last 2 italic sentences to Milpitas Post,

part of me wishes that I did. They can feel like a ghost.

A customer walks into a store in order to find

and purchase the final key component (aluminum foil)

for his art project. The store did not have

any foil. Therefore, the customer

was foiled. Foiled by

the foil.

***

National That Sucks Day (the 15th of April)

reminds me of these thoughts (in this post: they’re its staple).

This poem Aluminum was in a Milpitas Post issue;

the memory of my poem still does continue.