(2008)
SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…
wind tangled trees coiling across a yellow moon spiraling leaves surf-curled dunes
Nature’s snowy gown Melts into a silky pool Spring’s passion awakes
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…
Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid
it was always said that of all the people on the Island I loved life the best I who had the least but I had all I needed
(Based on the fact that 95% of household dust is our own skin cel… flakes of me circling in the sunli… bits of you lying on the bureau gather them in a beaker
GRAVE POEM: EDITH MUDGET… How is it that I, who kept my hou… And, indeed, my life, and the live… Of my family, in perfect order; I, who made the beds before they w…
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
Seagulls hovering Uneven hills encircle Tide pool reflection
Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?
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
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
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
crickets and brittle leaves empty seed pods scurrying in the heavy scent of autumn
