Mame, Sol, and Dog Bark

Mame, Sol, and Dog Bark follows the unfolding lives of a 21st

century couple shadowed by their faithful pooch. Also shadows,

the city and bay are backdrops as the poems explore tensions

created by the new century’s prosperity, and its pervasive anxieties.

Mame asks:

Could the sea with its kind of seasoning

be an answer? For what question?

One labored day gives way to another.

Finger the string hanging in the balloon tree

and choose the same route;

as always it leads round and round,

one breath and then another

of questionable texture,

the sequence like string tree-tied

to a postponed present.