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

seek the council of wild things in… leaves that turn their silver side… before the rain slender reeds that accept and bend they will sew your words abroad

Early morning mist Loon fishing quiet water Shining wake behind

Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?

silent universe solitary traveller a perfect union

inhumanity kills boys civilization kills girls

Seagulls hovering Uneven hills encircle Tide pool reflection

pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction

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

little lies, seeds of thyme shallow-rooted, often sewn cover the largest stone yet a tree springs from a single seed

wind tangled trees coiling across a yellow moon spiraling leaves surf-curled dunes

Life has a way of playing the vile… Or, providing an evener, some migh… I, who did not want to go to war, Seeing the senselessness of it, Stayed at home to work the farm -

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