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

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

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

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

death is absence of thought - zen how can we be afraid of something we cannot live to experience? it’s life that is frightening

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

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

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 universe Of winking stars is there one Who also wonders?

through the sea smoke’s shimmering… where the Passamaquoddy flows the pulsing heartbeat of the strob… in my footsteps, crunching snow through the whirling, wind-blown f…

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

silent universe solitary traveller a perfect union

summer is ending following the rolling sun quite without remorse