I've noticed garage and yard sale signs blooming like dandelions all over town.

Yard Sale

Laid out in the yard
are outgrown tastes,
discarded ambitions
and dashed aspirations
hoping for resolution
in cold hard cash.

m.e.

Ugly
(for Touch Chea and Sorn Sreap)

How do you survive
Pol Pot
and then
be killed
a world away
in your home?

I don't understand.
I don't want to have to understand.

Note: Touch Chea and Sorn Sreap were Cambodian refugees who were killed in their home in Anchorage. Their killer, just released from jail earlier in the day, also sexually assaulted their 2 year old grand-daughter and an elderly, demented relative.

Ugly 2

Summer sunshine
doesn't erase
the ugly stain
of a couple
mowed down
with malice.

Note: A couple walking home were deliberately hit by a car. She remains in critical condition.