14

Morning light screams summers heat
forced air hums, fans rage, ears ring

13

Ache hums in fiddler's fingertips
sore--as she types--
from a night of songs.

12

eight hours mid night, all about
us, in the darkness: silent wait

11

seal barks, "that's MY pup."
mincing away, wolf crunches
sedge, waits for darkness

10

Neighborhood fauna chirps and barks,
zooing up our cold class war.

9

Bubbling cioppino
Whispers so hungry hungry
Cluster at the stove

8

parrotfish clicks, pops, crunches,
biting deep... we glide, bubbling

7

People hear when still.
Noise abates if angst sinks in
deep. Yes, but shout on

6

rhubarb sussuration: barbs,
sly smiles, naked party angst

5

Howl: minds screaming hys-
terical naked he wrote--
Listen. He is right.

4

jarring midnight howl roars in
across town, trains on steel feet

3

Ra ta tat on floors
hairy feet quickly tap dance
jaws gnawing teeth pluck