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

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

GRAVE POEM: EDITH MUDGET… How is it that I, who kept my hou… And, indeed, my life, and the live… Of my family, in perfect order; I, who made the beds before they w…

Time for a pit stop Half face in rear view mirror Road unwound behind

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…

white-rimmed waves crawl reluctantly shore ward moody city skyline rebuffs shafts of sunshine cloud confusion

I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be

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

the sum of the estate: pictures newspaper clippings poems the memories

we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity

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 universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by

the silence of colour palette of fall reflected on water white birch trees granite rocks

I am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies