Fractal Memory #5

The barking dog wakes us
early summer Sunday morning
hazy from the night before
we make love then return to sleep
awaken love sleep again
four or five times
I don't remember now
we finally leave the bed in early evening
and sit on the balcony
grilling steaks and drinking
in the low sun of the afternoon

Shopping Cart Safari

Doc and I used to work together at a grocery store near a smallish mall. Some Friday and Saturday nights if or schedules worked out, I would leave my car at home and we would take off in his car after work. Usually it was just typical idiocy, get some beer, find some girls, raise some Hell. One particular night,we got out a little later than normal. The mall area down the block was closed by the time we got done working. We headed over there in Doc's car on our way out of town and herded the stray shopping carts around the parking lot. With the car. We must have hit ten or fifteen of them, and sent them sailing all around the lot, bent mashed and mangled.

Fractal Memory #4

Driving the red truck
into the summer late afternoon
waiting for the night people
to come out
smoking a small sweet cigar
and damning the sun
for being so low and bright
right in the eyes
as I turn and head west