Pappa always told me that you should never tell all you… and I found it to be good advice I recall the time I got back from… with my winter stores back in ‘39

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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…

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 -

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

Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….

Early morning mist Loon fishing quiet water Shining wake behind

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

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

All I wanted to do was ride my mo… And make out at Spooner’s Point. But when Mary Daley got pregnant Her father threatened me with the… So I married her and went to work