Round-The-World

I know it's meant to be haiku month, but this happened.

Round-The-World 12/8

I.

In the grocery store

in Taos

There is a Cristmas Tree

it is the middle of November

and the turkeys haven’t even sold yet

A stack of Terry’s chocolate orange

in dark and milk varieties

I take one home

crack it against the floor

and eat the core first

II.

We’re living with a big sky

Lidless blue orb of forgetting

I have lost so many selves…

Honey,

What was the question ?

III.

Remember that magnolia tree in Georgia

that willed with waxy cream blossoms

every spring ?

In that house we planted pumpkins

and had a pet lizard caught in the roses

out front

We named him Mister Nobody

and buried him at the foot of the yard

with all of the goldfish

IV.

The limb

of the pine tree

was shaped just so

that if you leap

it would launch you

into the air

through the limbs

to the field below

You spread your arms

look all figurehead-y

and close your eyes

then step to the edge

of the building

This does not equal that

V.

That one of these thing happened in Georgia and another in New Mexico and then the last one in England or New York matters only to me