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(2000)
Haiku
the silence of colour palette of fall reflected on water white birch trees granite rocks
silent universe solitary traveller a perfect union
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
Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?
a great blue heron watches from a mogul of grass as I scavenge a poem from the marsh Tom Peepety calls
Pappa always told me that you should never tell all you… and I found it to be good advice I recall the time I got back from… with my winter stores back in ‘39
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
mall tree never felt a breeze sweet swell of spring rain on your leaves new life in your branches
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…
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
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
grey rocks flowering in melting fu… first blooms of March after winter… a flock of ducks is muttering in t… the first light of day to brush th… shakes the branches they reply…
the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by
which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…
crumbling mortar and stone among the trees it stands alone morning glories creep upon the flo… the stair has fallen through the d… the music of summer is in the air