Poems by Barbara Joan Tiger Bass
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Disappear
by Barbara Joan Tiger Bass
From Canary Spring 2010
Barbara Joan lives near the Hayward fault line and the Sausal Creek Watershed in Oakland, California.
the snow
is disappearing
someone turned
the volume up
on global melt
down while lately
the great fog
of death warranted
insomnia
© Barbara Joan Tiger Bass
Garden Verse
by Barbara Joan Tiger Bass
From Canary Summer 2010
I learned rue from Frost and spent
part of each day doing so
fragrance of fresh earth
torn stalk of sage
I began to despair and then... kiwi
vines entwined above
a first word moon
emerged to applause
neurotransmitters traveled
at break-neck speed
how was stored
elsewhere
© Barbara Joan Tiger Bass
We Are the Environment
by Barbara Joan Tiger Bass
From Canary Fall 2010
the doorway to elsewhere
stays ajar and Caren
appears having crossed
my mind two years ago
eventually it links
to water, embryonic
that 80% we ignore as if
this mass of flesh
is not illusion
we deny oceanic ripple
aqueous cell structure
and our buoyancy
which keeps us supple
the river we think won't dry
© Barbara Joan Tiger Bass