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…

crickets and brittle leaves empty seed pods scurrying in the heavy scent of autumn

white-rimmed waves crawl reluctantly shore ward moody city skyline rebuffs shafts of sunshine cloud confusion

a cold moon filters down through the purple asters no explorers have returned with caterpillar robes and dandelion gold

WINTER SHADOW / Feb 11, 2011 small white stones fall rattling to the ground a shadow keeps pace beside me through the groaning night

Empty moorings and Quiet lighthouse watch the bay Crawl back to the sea

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

pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction

odd to think of the world without… a frozen corpse in the revolving e… molten lava below cold stars above journeying through the long, wide… unknowing

a great blue heron watches from a mogul of grass as I scavenge a poem from the marsh Tom Peepety calls

the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by

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

the sum of the estate: pictures newspaper clippings poems the memories

Tide tickling sun’s wake Under a thin skin of ice Beach disappearing