(2011)
#Haiku
odd to think of the world without… a frozen corpse in the revolving e… molten lava below cold stars above journeying through the long, wide… unknowing
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
the silence of colour palette of fall reflected on water white birch trees granite rocks
wild rose bush crushed between the rocks so carelessly placed and yet there a soul looks out at me
death is absence of thought - zen how can we be afraid of something we cannot live to experience? it’s life that is frightening
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…
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
In the universe Of winking stars is there one Who also wonders?
the sum of the estate: pictures newspaper clippings poems the memories
I have no family to care for my gr… who doesn’t care where I lay… for fourty years after an argument… which of us was bigger? in the course of our lives we bot…
Nature’s snowy gown Melts into a silky pool Spring’s passion awakes
