(2014)
pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction
Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….
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…
Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?
I have no family to care for my gr… who doesn’t care where I lay… for fourty years after an argument… which of us was bigger? in the course of our lives we bot…
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
last night the winter world transformed to summer’s sphere fireflies in the night their aimless paths alight
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…
SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…
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…
I am a rock on the shore of the magnificent ocean millions of years by the magnificent ocean and millions more
Autumn dusk descends Street lights run on rain-slicked… To glistening pools
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
a great blue heron watches from a mogul of grass as I scavenge a poem from the marsh Tom Peepety calls
Life has a way of playing the vile… Or, providing an evener, some migh… I, who did not want to go to war, Seeing the senselessness of it, Stayed at home to work the farm -