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

Nature’s snowy gown Melts into a silky pool Spring’s passion awakes

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

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…

The taste of winter ice Dug in August from the sawdust Of Conley’s ice house The slap of the screen door On Grammy’s porch

inhumanity kills boys civilization kills girls

sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two

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

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

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

Clouds on horizon Now and then a shorebird’s cry On buffeting wind

once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead

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