Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….
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
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
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
Empty moorings and Quiet lighthouse watch the bay Crawl back to the sea
silent universe solitary traveller a perfect union
crickets and brittle leaves empty seed pods scurrying in the heavy scent of autumn
wind tangled trees coiling across a yellow moon spiraling leaves surf-curled dunes
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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
last night the winter world transformed to summer’s sphere fireflies in the night their aimless paths alight
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
how pathetic to be born without wings such gifts should be for womankind, too
Seagulls hovering Uneven hills encircle Tide pool reflection
a cookbook is a strange place to find a recipe for the mind but the notes tell me the lemon tr… blooms year ‘round, never stops; while one branch sweetens the air
