(2014)
Meant to be recited slowly as a mantra
#AMeditation
I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be
white-rimmed waves crawl reluctantly shore ward moody city skyline rebuffs shafts of sunshine cloud confusion
In the universe Of winking stars is there one Who also wonders?
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
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
crickets and brittle leaves empty seed pods scurrying in the heavy scent of autumn
the sum of the estate: pictures newspaper clippings poems the memories
Seagulls hovering Uneven hills encircle Tide pool reflection
Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid
we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity
pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction
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
I have no family to care for my gr… who doesn’t care where I lay… for fourty years after an argument… which of us was bigger? in the course of our lives we bot…
mall tree never felt a breeze sweet swell of spring rain on your leaves new life in your branches
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…