the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by

Now that love has died Only silence remains between Two lonely people

Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….

white-rimmed waves crawl reluctantly shore ward moody city skyline rebuffs shafts of sunshine cloud confusion

I am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies

Life has a way of playing the vile… Or, providing an evener, some migh… I, who did not want to go to war, Seeing the senselessness of it, Stayed at home to work the farm -

see them standing in glass houses clutching stones of fear anxiety suits and shoes boots and jeans makeup and hair powdered and perfumed

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…

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

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

a great blue heron watches from a mogul of grass as I scavenge a poem from the marsh Tom Peepety calls

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

In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart