Soberness of Fall

 In the soberness of fall

A wandering spring day

Surprises us

And makes us laugh

She smiles

 She smiles like sugar as she sucks her sucker

She smiles at what the cynic said

She smiles

She stares at the people as they stutter

She stares with cold appearing eyes

She stares

She stared

At me as I stared at her

Boring through my eyes

Pinning me down

To look at me

To see what I say

Puzzled

Because I say nothing

As I squirm embarrassed

Softening her eyes

And turning away

My Brother's Poem

 

My brother’s sleek poem

Rises in its silver beauty

To shatter the vacant silence

With an environment of sound

Screaming in slow motion

Like a young chromed eagle

Off on its own to taunt earth

With its sky scratching line.