(2008)
Autumn dusk descends Street lights run on rain-slicked… To glistening pools
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
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
Tide tickling sun’s wake Under a thin skin of ice Beach disappearing
Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….
the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by
My queen for a day My man’s is in drag again Halloween party
Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid
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 am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies
liquid blue nightgown made of lighter fare floats in romance of autumn air a ballerina in an erotic dance longing to join that v-trail in th…
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
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we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity
Clouds on horizon Now and then a shorebird’s cry On buffeting wind