(2011)
#Haiku
once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead
pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction
white-rimmed waves crawl reluctantly shore ward moody city skyline rebuffs shafts of sunshine cloud confusion
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
silent universe solitary traveller a perfect union
wild rose bush crushed between the rocks so carelessly placed and yet there a soul looks out at me
Now that love has died Only silence remains between Two lonely people
I am a rock on the shore of the magnificent ocean millions of years by the magnificent ocean and millions more
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
WINTER SHADOW / Feb 11, 2011 small white stones fall rattling to the ground a shadow keeps pace beside me through the groaning night
(Based on the fact that 95% of household dust is our own skin cel… flakes of me circling in the sunli… bits of you lying on the bureau gather them in a beaker
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…
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
through the sea smoke’s shimmering… where the Passamaquoddy flows the pulsing heartbeat of the strob… in my footsteps, crunching snow through the whirling, wind-blown f…
surf and turf of St. Andrews olde salts and bullshit under one blue tarp gossip thick as molasses sparks quick as match-lit gas
