(2009)
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…
Icy needles Stabbing at the skin, Razor winds Cutting through Layer upon layer,
From the sky They come– The geese fall to open-armed earth.
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…
Winds swirl around me In their familiar way, A touch here, another there, They move me along. I’m like a leaf:
Listen when the butterfly Settles onto your hand, Feel the footsteps. Marvel in the paper-thin Jewel that has flown to you.
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,
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 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…
A green, glass bottle Carried a message Across the sea, Carried a message Across time.
Lay me down Beneath the forest floor Between holly and oak. Lay me down Where snow and rain
Sun on the water, The surface looks like An old woman’s skin, Delicately wrinkled by time: The time it took for
Change is a-coming, And it’s a-stayin’ Change is a-coming, Goodbye.
Rain has been falling for two days now, The dry soil finally quenched after the long, hot dry. Ditches, ponds and guts
As the party lights dim, as the we… green of summer is forgotten in th… it’s here, it’s time for farewells… Autumn is the year’s last party.… of the party goers. They slip out…