last night the winter world transformed to summer’s sphere fireflies in the night their aimless paths alight

I am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies

Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….

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…

Life has a way of playing the vile… Or, providing an evener, some migh… I, who did not want to go to war, Seeing the senselessness of it, Stayed at home to work the farm -

the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by

(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

sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two

Autumn dusk descends Street lights run on rain-slicked… To glistening pools

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…

There is an even-handed justice in… No senility forgiven, but caught a… Blood and flesh, bone and marrow To feed the life of another, And back to the earth that gave it…

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

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…

I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be