(2014)
Each line to be repeated slowly
summer is ending following the rolling sun quite without remorse
In the universe Of winking stars is there one Who also wonders?
pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction
how pathetic to be born without wings such gifts should be for womankind, too
Seagulls hovering Uneven hills encircle Tide pool reflection
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
a great blue heron watches from a mogul of grass as I scavenge a poem from the marsh Tom Peepety calls
Early morning mist Loon fishing quiet water Shining wake behind
My queen for a day My man’s is in drag again Halloween party
mall tree never felt a breeze sweet swell of spring rain on your leaves new life in your branches
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
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
I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
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…
