Stump Poems #12

(I often use the bike share [cdphpcycle.com] on my stump mission.)

Big stump
of a big
tree once
shading
this now
sun-washed
home

(August 24, 2018
100 Ryckman Ave.
Albany, NY)

Stump Poems Addendum

A site after the stump is removed, cf. Stump Poem #3

Stump Poems #11

Fresh cut
saw dust
2 trees [stumps] *
3 houses
apart
were they
partners
in planting
too?
————–>  [<———-] *

(August 16, 2018
311 & 317 New Scotland Ave.,
Albany, NY)

[Text marked * is the variation for 317 New Scotland Ave.]

2 Poems for Paul Pines

Paul Pines (1941 – 2018) at Poets in the Park, Albany, NY, July 2015

GATHERING SPARKS

In my dream
I tell someone
that a small
painting tucked
into the poems
is a portrait
of the poet, then
try to find it before
the dream fades.

*   *   *   *

THE CONFUSION OF THE ATTIC

Reading about unemployed
Platonists in Paul Pine’s poetry
I wonder if my old copy of
the Modern Library Plato
is in the attic.  But when I
ascend into the heat, I find only
plastic forms, odd extruders &
some dried up pieces of Play Doh.