OBSERVATION FROM AN OLD NOTEBOOK
Seagulls hovering Uneven hills encircle Tide pool reflection
inhumanity kills boys civilization kills girls
SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…
Me: I love to drive He: it’s too damn dangerous safer to fly, statistics prove it
I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be
Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?
Nature’s snowy gown Melts into a silky pool Spring’s passion awakes
Now that love has died Only silence remains between Two lonely people
Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….
I met her at the supermarket this… She told me she works in the schoo… I saw again a little girl nervousl… at the taunting –Tallest girl in g… And I wonder if she’s back there…
Life has a way of playing the vile… Or, providing an evener, some migh… I, who did not want to go to war, Seeing the senselessness of it, Stayed at home to work the farm -
Clouds on horizon Now and then a shorebird’s cry On buffeting wind
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
we saw your burnished footprints in the soft beach sand followed them across the sea and through the shattered sky beyo… ‘one small step for man’, he said
once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead