Early

ugh...

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

Ice

weekend wordsmith prompt: ice

Crystalline branches
snap and take down power lines

A winter hazard

Amtrak Soundtrack

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

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

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

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

Linked

weekend wordsmith prompt: time

Today’s Dad’s birthday
We’re both February babes
Yesterday was mine

We’re some ways alike
As dads and daughters can be
Much to Mom’s chagrin

We had our issues
Now all I have are questions
Dad’s dead twenty years

It was our cancer
Over at fifty-seven
He missed the good stuff

Melanoma – thief of time

Cover Me

misunderstood this one for years

Song’s not about France?
I still hear “Alsace-Lorraine”
Not “outside’s the rain”

Returned

is it a road-trip if you take amtrak?

Two days out of town
Up to New Jersey for work
Home feels good tonight