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

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

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…

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

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

a cold moon filters down through the purple asters no explorers have returned with caterpillar robes and dandelion gold

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

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

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

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

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

see them standing in glass houses clutching stones of fear anxiety suits and shoes boots and jeans makeup and hair powdered and perfumed

the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by

inhumanity kills boys civilization kills girls

I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be