mall tree never felt a breeze sweet swell of spring rain on your leaves new life in your branches
I am a rock on the shore of the magnificent ocean millions of years by the magnificent ocean and millions more
my real name was Clarence but they always called me Dummy because they thought I was stupid I lived with my Mom and swept up… for a dollar a day ‘cause
she watches him as if the fault were in her eyes poor shorn Sampson withered hands grip the canes that barely hold the frail reflect…
seek the council of wild things in… leaves that turn their silver side… before the rain slender reeds that accept and bend they will sew your words abroad
I saw their faces as clearly as if… on their stones beneath their name… heard their voices in the trees whose roots go deep into their dus… and into the dust of this Island
once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead
A man sits reading under a “SIZ… He does not look sizzling hot He looks quite ordinary in fact Perhaps feeling me watching him… (Not noticing the sign because it…
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….
crumbling mortar and stone among the trees it stands alone morning glories creep upon the flo… the stair has fallen through the d… the music of summer is in the air
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
see them standing in glass houses clutching stones of fear anxiety suits and shoes boots and jeans makeup and hair powdered and perfumed
I am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies
it was always said that of all the people on the Island I loved life the best I who had the least but I had all I needed
