we saw your burnished footprints in the soft beach sand followed them across the sea and through the shattered sky beyo… ‘one small step for man’, he said
we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity
which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…
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…
Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….
the darkening hills a triumvirate of crows in the glowing gloom
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…
Suppose you was 18 years old And never had a single thing In all your life to call yours alo… Except your body and your face? And suppose you went to work
I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be
Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?
wind tangled trees coiling across a yellow moon spiraling leaves surf-curled dunes
silent universe solitary traveller a perfect union
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
white-rimmed waves crawl reluctantly shore ward moody city skyline rebuffs shafts of sunshine cloud confusion
