(1990)
Tide tickling sun’s wake Under a thin skin of ice Beach disappearing
a cookbook is a strange place to find a recipe for the mind but the notes tell me the lemon tr… blooms year ‘round, never stops; while one branch sweetens the air
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
pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction
wild rose bush crushed between the rocks so carelessly placed and yet there a soul looks out at me
I met her at the supermarket this… She told me she works in the schoo… I saw again a little girl nervousl… at the taunting –Tallest girl in g… And I wonder if she’s back there…
we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity
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
Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid
Pappa always told me that you should never tell all you… and I found it to be good advice I recall the time I got back from… with my winter stores back in ‘39
a great blue heron watches from a mogul of grass as I scavenge a poem from the marsh Tom Peepety calls
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
a cold moon filters down through the purple asters no explorers have returned with caterpillar robes and dandelion gold
surf and turf of St. Andrews olde salts and bullshit under one blue tarp gossip thick as molasses sparks quick as match-lit gas
my real name was Clarence but they always called me Dummy because they thought I was stupid I lived with my Mom and swept up… for a dollar a day ‘cause