(2001)
I met her at the supermarket this… She told me she works in the schoo… I saw again a little girl nervousl… at the taunting –Tallest girl in g… And I wonder if she’s back there…
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
the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by
a cookbook is a strange place to find a recipe for the mind but the notes tell me the lemon tr… blooms year ‘round, never stops; while one branch sweetens the air
Seagulls hovering Uneven hills encircle Tide pool reflection
Clouds on horizon Now and then a shorebird’s cry On buffeting wind
Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid
wild rose bush crushed between the rocks so carelessly placed and yet there a soul looks out at me
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
surf and turf of St. Andrews olde salts and bullshit under one blue tarp gossip thick as molasses sparks quick as match-lit gas
a great blue heron watches from a mogul of grass as I scavenge a poem from the marsh Tom Peepety calls
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
a cold moon filters down through the purple asters no explorers have returned with caterpillar robes and dandelion gold
inhumanity kills boys civilization kills girls
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
