Honest Chaos

A romp out there beyond the edge of time.

A poem with penguins, a slip and slide, martinis, and Fred Astaire. What else could you ask for?

A poem challenging the assumptions of others. Inspired by a WSJ article about how the Bronx Zoo was going to start showing chickens in a barn yard because inner city kids had supposedly never seen real chickens in their expected environment.

A poem about the power of music

A poem about attending weekday Mass in a hospital chapel

You are a verse http://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2016/04/1952-you-are-verse.html

A poem about the people you come to know by sight if you work in a hospital

A poem about sprinters, based on my memory of being on the high school track team

A poem about fearing losing the one you love

A poem about my grandmother, who gambled when she was young.

An interpretation of dark matter

A poem about waiting for the end of winter.

a poem of longing for that which is not personal.

http://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2016/04/1852-certain-tension.html

do you find it pointless to walk to the moon?

An invitation from Virgil, or is it the other way around? http://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2016/04/1452-invitation-and-virgil.html

Do you hate actors acting about acting? I hate poems about writing poetry even more. It's the height of pretentiousness to (try to) make art about making art.

a poem about creating order in the chaos with a piano

self-medicating

a poem about losing your muse