(2014)
Each line to be repeated slowly
#AMeditation
liquid blue nightgown made of lighter fare floats in romance of autumn air a ballerina in an erotic dance longing to join that v-trail in th…
Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….
SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…
summer is ending following the rolling sun quite without remorse
the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
(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
I am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies
My queen for a day My man’s is in drag again Halloween party
surf and turf of St. Andrews olde salts and bullshit under one blue tarp gossip thick as molasses sparks quick as match-lit gas
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
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
which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…