(2008)
the darkening hills a triumvirate of crows in the glowing gloom
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
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
I am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies
Seagulls hovering Uneven hills encircle Tide pool reflection
I am a rock on the shore of the magnificent ocean millions of years by the magnificent ocean and millions more
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
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
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…
pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction
Clouds on horizon Now and then a shorebird’s cry On buffeting wind
crickets and brittle leaves empty seed pods scurrying in the heavy scent of autumn
mall tree never felt a breeze sweet swell of spring rain on your leaves new life in your branches
WINTER SHADOW / Feb 11, 2011 small white stones fall rattling to the ground
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…
