(2000)
I am a rock on the shore of the magnificent ocean millions of years by the magnificent ocean and millions more
SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…
I am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies
wild rose bush crushed between the rocks so carelessly placed and yet there a soul looks out at me
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
a cold moon filters down through the purple asters no explorers have returned with caterpillar robes and dandelion gold
the silence of colour palette of fall reflected on water white birch trees granite rocks
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
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
see them standing in glass houses clutching stones of fear anxiety suits and shoes boots and jeans makeup and hair powdered and perfumed
Clouds on horizon Now and then a shorebird’s cry On buffeting wind
we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity
little lies, seeds of thyme shallow-rooted, often sewn cover the largest stone yet a tree springs from a single seed
(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
Suppose you was 18 years old And never had a single thing In all your life to call yours alo… Except your body and your face? And suppose you went to work