In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart

last night the winter world transformed to summer’s sphere fireflies in the night their aimless paths alight

Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid

once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead

SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…

looking at the world through drops of counterfeit lace on the window pane

I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer

sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two

surf and turf of St. Andrews olde salts and bullshit under one blue tarp gossip thick as molasses sparks quick as match-lit gas

a cookbook is a strange place to find a recipe for the mind but the notes tell me the lemon tr… blooms year ‘round, never stops; while one branch sweetens the air

Suppose you was 18 years old And never had a single thing In all your life to call yours alo… Except your body and your face? And suppose you went to work

liquid blue nightgown made of lighter fare floats in romance of autumn air a ballerina in an erotic dance longing to join that v-trail in th…

All I wanted to do was ride my mo… And make out at Spooner’s Point. But when Mary Daley got pregnant Her father threatened me with the… So I married her and went to work

the darkening hills a triumvirate of crows in the glowing gloom

Seagulls hovering Uneven hills encircle Tide pool reflection