July's Post: A Few Maui Shorties

My meditations
On Gary Snyder's essays
broken by this buzzing fly.


The cat
does meatloaf zazen
alert for geckos.


Distant boats
sharply white in morning sunlight,
Lanai and Molokai
still veiled in rain clouds.


Morning coolness,
doves cooing on the roof.
The empty beach ...


(c) Bob Loomis
07-31-2012