Thursday, March 26, 2009

Retained

the shoe drops

Job goes on, for now
Relief - sadness for others
Ten percent laid off

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

So Glad I'm Gone

maria reminds me...

tornado warnings,
thunder storms, golf ball-size hail
don't miss Texas spring




Sunday, March 22, 2009

Expired

weekend wordsmith prompt: passport

Early trips abroad
England, France and Italy
Passport long timed-out


Saturday, March 21, 2009

Lulu's New Haiku Milieu

i've joined spring haiku 2009

Find me here and there
Some posts more haiku-ier
Others not so much


False Start

the calendar says spring

White flakes large and small
bewilder little Red Breast
Snow on Spring's first day


Friday, March 20, 2009

The Jay

waiting at the stoplight

Eye-catching blue flash
in the still-brown roadside grass
Springtime harbinger


Thursday, March 19, 2009

Early

ugh...

Not my usual
In the car at 6:15
No hint of dawn sky


Sunday, March 15, 2009

Ice

weekend wordsmith prompt: ice

Crystalline branches
snap and take down power lines
A winter hazard


Saturday, March 14, 2009

Amtrak Soundtrack

ok - i use my ipod on the train...

Forty-nine years old
Talbots suit, Brighton readers
Rocking Nirvana


Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Plugged

scenes from the cube farm

We sit back to back
Earbuds in place, volume cranked
No interactions

Eveyone's tuned out
There is no iPod in Team
Office is silent

Saturday, March 7, 2009

While I Was Out


Sciatica! Sciatica!

My left calf clenches
when I stand and when I walk
Rage against the pain









Code in My Nothe

A cold and a cough
with multi-colored mucus
fever and ear ache






My Mind to Your Mind

Mentor retires
Learning as much as I can
before his last day