the sum of the estate: pictures newspaper clippings poems the memories

Autumn dusk descends Street lights run on rain-slicked… To glistening pools

Tide tickling sun’s wake Under a thin skin of ice Beach disappearing

I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer

looking at the world through drops of counterfeit lace on the window pane

last night the winter world transformed to summer’s sphere fireflies in the night their aimless paths alight

crumbling mortar and stone among the trees it stands alone morning glories creep upon the flo… the stair has fallen through the d… the music of summer is in 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

inhumanity kills boys civilization kills girls

silent universe solitary traveller a perfect union

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 -

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

Empty moorings and Quiet lighthouse watch the bay Crawl back to the sea

I am a rock on the shore of the magnificent ocean millions of years by the magnificent ocean and millions more