(2000)
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
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white-rimmed waves crawl reluctantly shore ward moody city skyline rebuffs shafts of sunshine cloud confusion
Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….
we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity
pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction
There is an even-handed justice in… No senility forgiven, but caught a… Blood and flesh, bone and marrow To feed the life of another, And back to the earth that gave 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
Time for a pit stop Half face in rear view mirror Road unwound behind
I am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies
summer is ending following the rolling sun quite without remorse
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
Early morning mist Loon fishing quiet water Shining wake behind
little lies, seeds of thyme shallow-rooted, often sewn cover the largest stone yet a tree springs from a single seed