(2009)
He has tiny fingers, tiny toes, tiny ears, and a tiny nose.
I held the rose So long ago, Held it tight, too well, And still, the thorn lives Deep 'neath the skin,
Winds swirl around me In their familiar way, A touch here, another there, They move me along. I’m like a leaf:
A green, glass bottle Carried a message Across the sea, Carried a message Across time.
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…
Lay me down Beneath the forest floor Between holly and oak. Lay me down Where snow and rain
Click: the saddest sound. The door closing on another Moment of my life.
The blue of the sky Meets the green of the sea In the white of thousands of years… Frozen in a two-sided mirror of ti… You look back to see the past reve…
Sun on the water, The surface looks like An old woman’s skin, Delicately wrinkled by time: The time it took for
for you who toil, Rest. for you who grieve, Comfort. for you who hunger,
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.
The sunrise sun backlit the now br… it passed through them to light a… of fog strewn across the road. I shuffled through those pages ear… would have done so without me.
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…
Dirty hands clasped in prayer, Dusty fingers raised to the sky, Pleading for the same blessing. It had been weeks since the last r… leaves folded upright keeping thei…
From the sky They come– The geese fall to open-armed earth.