(2001)
crickets and brittle leaves empty seed pods scurrying in the heavy scent of autumn
last night the winter world transformed to summer’s sphere fireflies in the night their aimless paths alight
seek the council of wild things in… leaves that turn their silver side… before the rain slender reeds that accept and bend they will sew your words abroad
silent universe solitary traveller a perfect union
A man sits reading under a “SIZ… He does not look sizzling hot He looks quite ordinary in fact Perhaps feeling me watching him… (Not noticing the sign because it…
the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by
Clouds on horizon Now and then a shorebird’s cry On buffeting wind
little lies, seeds of thyme shallow-rooted, often sewn cover the largest stone yet a tree springs from a single seed
(Based on the fact that 95% of household dust is our own skin cel… flakes of me circling in the sunli… bits of you lying on the bureau gather them in a beaker
the silence of colour palette of fall reflected on water white birch trees granite rocks
Time for a pit stop Half face in rear view mirror Road unwound behind
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…
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…
Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid
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