(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

WINTER SHADOW / Feb 11, 2011 small white stones fall rattling to the ground a shadow keeps pace beside me through the groaning night

Time for a pit stop Half face in rear view mirror Road unwound behind

My queen for a day My man’s is in drag again Halloween party

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

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

the silence of colour palette of fall reflected on water white birch trees granite rocks

SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…

Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid

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 -

Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?

it was always said that of all the people on the Island I loved life the best I who had the least but I had all I needed

which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…

the darkening hills a triumvirate of crows in the glowing gloom

wind tangled trees coiling across a yellow moon spiraling leaves surf-curled dunes