(2008)
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
wind tangled trees coiling across a yellow moon spiraling leaves surf-curled dunes
the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by
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…
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
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
WINTER SHADOW / Feb 11, 2011 small white stones fall rattling to the ground a shadow keeps pace beside me through the groaning night
wild rose bush crushed between the rocks so carelessly placed and yet there a soul looks out at me
Pappa always told me that you should never tell all you… and I found it to be good advice I recall the time I got back from… with my winter stores back in ‘39
crickets and brittle leaves empty seed pods scurrying in the heavy scent of autumn
through the sea smoke’s shimmering… where the Passamaquoddy flows the pulsing heartbeat of the strob… in my footsteps, crunching snow through the whirling, wind-blown f…
mall tree never felt a breeze sweet swell of spring rain on your leaves new life in your branches
we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity
how pathetic to be born without wings such gifts should be for womankind, too
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…