(2008)
Thirty miles to the west, sleet an… thirty sleeps the bay, temperer of… While snow and ice chill the west,… up to our chins. Here by the ocean… Instead of the sound of waves grow…
From the sky They come– The geese fall to open-armed earth.
Walking alone on streets I was fa… felt that I was lost. If it weren… A-spin, I looked for my map And saw that I was lost.
Click: the saddest sound. The door closing on another Moment of my life.
Driving in the dark I saw diamonds, Diamonds in the air, Diamonds everywhere, I’d have been wealthy,
Icy needles Stabbing at the skin, Razor winds Cutting through Layer upon layer,
Lay me down Beneath the forest floor Between holly and oak. Lay me down Where snow and rain
She asked me, “Poppa, What is love?” And I thought and then said “Love is what you need and want it… She thought some and said,
I walked on the same path With Pablo and Gabriella Last night. It is possible, too, That I heard their music,
for you who toil, Rest. for you who grieve, Comfort. for you who hunger,
Little puts a smile in my heart mo… it’s one that I have woken early t… on my early every-day drive to wor… of time. I look in the mirror and wonder at…
It snowed again today, That may be insignificant In a place already white. It was quiet again today, That is never insignificant
Sun on the water, The surface looks like An old woman’s skin, Delicately wrinkled by time: The time it took for
A green, glass bottle Carried a message Across the sea, Carried a message Across time.
The snow slipped in (we watched for it all day long) Like a secret lover slipping out o… All that we saw (when we finally s… Were the footprints showing where…