In the universe Of winking stars is there one Who also wonders?

see them standing in glass houses clutching stones of fear anxiety suits and shoes boots and jeans makeup and hair powdered and perfumed

Now that love has died Only silence remains between Two lonely people

Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid

the silence of colour palette of fall reflected on water white birch trees granite rocks

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

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

we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity

All I wanted to do was ride my mo… And make out at Spooner’s Point. But when Mary Daley got pregnant Her father threatened me with the… So I married her and went to work

little lies, seeds of thyme shallow-rooted, often sewn cover the largest stone yet a tree springs from a single seed

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

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

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

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…