(2008)
wind tangled trees coiling across a yellow moon spiraling leaves surf-curled dunes
Tide tickling sun’s wake Under a thin skin of ice Beach disappearing
looking at the world through drops of counterfeit lace on the window pane
Time for a pit stop Half face in rear view mirror Road unwound behind
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
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…
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
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…
which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…
the darkening hills a triumvirate of crows in the glowing gloom
white-rimmed waves crawl reluctantly shore ward moody city skyline rebuffs shafts of sunshine cloud confusion
Me: I love to drive He: it’s too damn dangerous safer to fly, statistics prove it
how pathetic to be born without wings such gifts should be for womankind, too
I am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies
Empty moorings and Quiet lighthouse watch the bay Crawl back to the sea