impatience

these earnest urban gardeners
composting religiously
massage the wounded dirt
in the sad abandoned lots
nurturing malformed zucchinis
in the lead-leaching soil

me, I spill my seed
on the cracked pavement
like Onan
jacarandas spring up
in my wake

icy persistence

cracked sidewalks red berries
dead brown leaves

the neighbors' ithyphallic
remnant paganism
they pile up rocks like
moss-covered stupas
Sumerian boundary heaps

which archaic gods decreed
this deep freeze?

stone gardens preserve
gripped lapidary memories
of shining gem-like ecstasy

while Martian water ice breathes
liquid beneath
this icy persistence

moon again

moon moon and moon again
tonight's bright crescent
slashing
but remember --
bulging refulgent white
breasts --
and the goddess star
bewitches you three times
count count and count again