I dreamed a loud "snap" that woke me up exactly when I needed to check the traps for rats, at 6:15 a.m.

What would a life coach say to this backyard? What would a life guard do?

"there's a lot of mystique around rum"
it is spending more time in oak

I wonder about oak. Why oak?
Mesquite tequila, mesquite mescal,
camphor, cedar, or redwood gin

Destination Brand

"teens like brands, not companies"
"teens drive family expenditure, especially in a downturn"

desserts, architecture, rum, beauty, Olympics, and public art

mangosteen
pineapple guava
acai

salmon roe

Build well
once dazzling
once eloquent, these ivies and vines
refining the trellis, the pergola
refusing to be trained

as it could be -- parallel
as it ----------- the site

kill devil sugar cane
original coke
kosher marshmallows

first distilled molasses
then distilled cane juice

'ti punch
petit

dull roar of The Trail
Tamiami
41
fountain-like pool refilling, bright
neighbor spraying a bucket with a hose
plastic or garbage can

all this cape myrtle and no hummers

stress and no arctic cranberries unusually high in Omega-3s
gold, caviar, silk
"there's nothing to understand about beauty"
nature applied
commodity used

light pollution
streetlight tops uncapped
only Orion, Big Dipper, visible tonight -- too much ground light for many stars --

dark bay reflective bay
fishy bay
dull harbor, mud bottomed
for a deep draft port, 40 miles from the city center
annex annex annex
a city with no center
nature without center, just proceeding