Attack of the Autumnal Arbor

Attack of the Autumnal Arbor

 
The leaves are
changing color as the branches
reach for you.

 
–Tom Riley

 

 

 

Unmarried

Unmarried

 
The ghost of
the old maid still dreams
of perfect bachelors.

 
–Tom Riley

Hidden Spirits

Hidden Spirits

 

The apparition you

see is never the one

that consumes you.

 

–Tom Riley

Supplanted Saurians

Supplanted Saurians

 

The mammalian world

needs to listen to reptilian

cries for reparations.

 

–Tom Riley

 

Case of the Presumptuous Specialist

The Case of the Presumptuous Specialist

 

That damn neuroscientist

has the nerve to imagine

he understands me!

 

–Tom Riley

 

Numbered, Numbered, Weighed, and Measured

Numbered, Numbered, Weighed, and Measured

 

Agents of mediocrity

insist you squat low for

instruments of quantification.

 

–Tom Riley

Do You Good

Do You Good

 

Yes, it’ll do

you good to shout accusations

at indifferent heaven.

 

–Tom Riley

Scavengers

Scavengers

 

The vulture lands

before the raven.  It’s always

beauty before brains.

 

–Tom Riley

Under the Bridge

Under the Bridge

 

Ain’t no accident,

you who cross, that “troll”

and “truth” alliterate.

 

–Tom Riley

 

 

Messy Message

Messy Message

 

He left a

messy note to himself:  “Try

to be neater!”

 

–Tom Riley