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

pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction

Seagulls hovering Uneven hills encircle Tide pool reflection

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

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

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

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

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

liquid blue nightgown made of lighter fare floats in romance of autumn air a ballerina in an erotic dance longing to join that v-trail in th…

Tide tickling sun’s wake Under a thin skin of ice Beach disappearing

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…

grey rocks flowering in melting fu… first blooms of March after winter… a flock of ducks is muttering in t… the first light of day to brush th… shakes the branches they reply…

crumbling mortar and stone among the trees it stands alone morning glories creep upon the flo… the stair has fallen through the d… the music of summer is in the air

Now that love has died Only silence remains between Two lonely people

odd to think of the world without… a frozen corpse in the revolving e… molten lava below cold stars above journeying through the long, wide… unknowing