(2013)
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
white-rimmed waves crawl reluctantly shore ward moody city skyline rebuffs shafts of sunshine cloud confusion
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…
Tide tickling sun’s wake Under a thin skin of ice Beach disappearing
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…
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be
(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
which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…
Clouds on horizon Now and then a shorebird’s cry On buffeting wind
crickets and brittle leaves empty seed pods scurrying in the heavy scent of autumn
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
Empty moorings and Quiet lighthouse watch the bay Crawl back to the sea
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
