I am a rock on the shore of the magnificent ocean millions of years by the magnificent ocean and millions more

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

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…

Nature’s snowy gown Melts into a silky pool Spring’s passion awakes

crickets and brittle leaves empty seed pods scurrying in the heavy scent of autumn

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

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

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

The taste of winter ice Dug in August from the sawdust Of Conley’s ice house The slap of the screen door On Grammy’s porch

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

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

a cold moon filters down through the purple asters no explorers have returned with caterpillar robes and dandelion gold

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

summer is ending following the rolling sun quite without remorse

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