(2001)
my real name was Clarence but they always called me Dummy because they thought I was stupid I lived with my Mom and swept up… for a dollar a day ‘cause
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
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…
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
Clouds on horizon Now and then a shorebird’s cry On buffeting wind
In the universe Of winking stars is there one Who also wonders?
grey rocks flowering in melting fu… first blooms of March after winter… a flock of ducks is muttering in t… the first light of day to brush th… shakes the branches they reply…
looking at the world through drops of counterfeit lace on the window pane
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…
Early morning mist Loon fishing quiet water Shining wake behind
wind tangled trees coiling across a yellow moon spiraling leaves surf-curled dunes
I saw their faces as clearly as if… on their stones beneath their name… heard their voices in the trees whose roots go deep into their dus… and into the dust of this Island
My queen for a day My man’s is in drag again Halloween party
Me: I love to drive He: it’s too damn dangerous safer to fly, statistics prove it