(2009)
Icy needles Stabbing at the skin, Razor winds Cutting through Layer upon layer,
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…
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…
From the sky They come– The geese fall to open-armed earth.
I walked on the same path With Pablo and Gabriella Last night. It is possible, too, That I heard their music,
Driving in the dark I saw diamonds, Diamonds in the air, Diamonds everywhere, I’d have been wealthy,
It snowed again today, That may be insignificant In a place already white. It was quiet again today, That is never insignificant
Change is a-coming, And it’s a-stayin’ Change is a-coming, Goodbye.
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,
Rain has been falling for two days now, The dry soil finally quenched after the long, hot dry. Ditches, ponds and guts
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…
I’ve seen this pattern before, I… the story might end differently, b… The smell of burning leaves is in… fragrance that rivals the finest r… damp-leaf perfume cleanses the min…
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…
I wish I had the words to describ… the quiet of a sunrise, the softness of rain on my arms, the fascination of a child with he… the liquid silver of morning dew o…