(2014)
a great blue heron watches from a mogul of grass as I scavenge a poem from the marsh Tom Peepety calls
my real name was Clarence but they always called me Dummy because they thought I was stupid I lived with my Mom and swept up… for a dollar a day ‘cause
I am a rock on the shore of the magnificent ocean millions of years by the magnificent ocean and millions more
wind tangled trees coiling across a yellow moon spiraling leaves surf-curled dunes
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
Many times, my father, drunk upon… “Spare the rod and spoil the child… Swung his belt and lay the stripes… To cleanse my soul. And I, drunk upon memory and whis…
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…
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…
The taste of winter ice Dug in August from the sawdust Of Conley’s ice house The slap of the screen door On Grammy’s porch
once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead
she watches him as if the fault were in her eyes poor shorn Sampson withered hands grip the canes that barely hold the frail reflect…
Early morning mist Loon fishing quiet water Shining wake behind
the silence of colour palette of fall reflected on water white birch trees granite rocks
last night the winter world transformed to summer’s sphere fireflies in the night their aimless paths alight