NotDedicated
Can something be dedicated not dedicated?
Is the declaration not designation?
Is the determination not a demonstration?

Does undedication deem it deprecated?
Is its detraction not debilitation?
Does diminution not display disinclination?

Is disclosure on its face disseminated?
Is its denunciation not defamation?
Are we discouraged by its desecration?

If it's not dedicated, what is it?

Puffball
Pink petaled prickly purpurea,
perimeter prostrated pendulously.
Spiny center starkly solid,
stickers stiffly stab at me.

Pretty puffball pretends plushness,
possesses piercing pointed pikes.
Seemingly supple, shards surprising,
startling stilettos, secret spikes.

Atomized aromatics animatedly arise all a-twitter,
alchemical amber alike to autumn.

Billowing bubbles blossom in brassy bitter,
buzzing, bursting, boiling from bottom.

Carbonation climbs and coalesces to creamy chitter,
a clinging, crackling, crown of cotton.

Glass of nostalgia, sensorial memory transmitter,
forever in mind and heart, never forgotten.

Serenade
After the park
one weekend, lazy
dog walk, light beers, Chinese food.
Guitar in hand,
you serenade me
to keep away shared solitude.

Peanut
In a window
down the block
past the kids with
sidewalk chalk,
cat with languor,
eartip cut,
dark tabby fur,
named Peanut.