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

Suppose you was 18 years old And never had a single thing In all your life to call yours alo… Except your body and your face? And suppose you went to work

Early morning mist Loon fishing quiet water Shining wake behind

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

I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer

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…

silent universe solitary traveller a perfect union

looking at the world through drops of counterfeit lace on the window pane

the darkening hills a triumvirate of crows in the glowing gloom

death is absence of thought - zen how can we be afraid of something we cannot live to experience? it’s life that is frightening

SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…

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

Many times, my father, drunk upon… “Spare the rod and spoil the child… Swung his belt and lay the stripes… To cleanse my soul. And I, drunk upon memory and whis…

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

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