Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?

sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two

we saw your burnished footprints in the soft beach sand followed them across the sea and through the shattered sky beyo… ‘one small step for man’, he said

Seagulls hovering Uneven hills encircle Tide pool reflection

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

seek the council of wild things in… leaves that turn their silver side… before the rain slender reeds that accept and bend they will sew your words abroad

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

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

death is absence of thought - zen how can we be afraid of something we cannot live to experience? it’s life that is frightening

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

I met her at the supermarket this… She told me she works in the schoo… I saw again a little girl nervousl… at the taunting –Tallest girl in g… And I wonder if she’s back there…

last night the winter world transformed to summer’s sphere fireflies in the night their aimless paths alight

once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead

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