Morta's Hired Hand

The blacksmith's anvil

hammer roused

defeated before dawn.

Pendulum punisher swings 

his ball-peen hammer, 

hammering anvil's snout 

sounding round after round.

B.F.M.

Being Mr. Fix-it

I have a friend 
I'm sure I can fix
with a screwdriver and wrench.

B.F.M.

Affair

Work and distractions are your true loves.

I'm the mistress, the aquarium kept Gila Monster
proving your fondness for all things....
reptilian.

B.F.M.

& So We met

Enter you, hailed by a dusty god 

telling you: "go here, not there."

B.F.M.

Monday Morning

After morning coffee is brewed, headlines and inside jokes, she does the Monday morning departure. After smoothies are made and bread toasted loss comes whispering: ”now what?”

B.F.M.

Misunderstandings

Air, heavy as language 
carved from a quarry
falling on a big toe.

You walk away.

B.F.M.

Procreation

A prickle pear 

loses a limb

to mother 

another prickle pear.

B.F.M.

Offering

Under the paloverde, 

shadows 

dance for us all.

B.F.M.

Morning Shadows

Laughing Hyena? Bullet Ant? Paper Wasp? Western Diamondback? American Alligator, yes, that's it, alligator!

Then the sun rises revealing a house finch flexing his wings. I’ve defeated myself before the day begins. 

B.F.M.