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

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

(Based on the fact that 95% of household dust is our own skin cel… flakes of me circling in the sunli… bits of you lying on the bureau gather them in a beaker

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 -

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

silent universe solitary traveller a perfect union

the silence of colour palette of fall reflected on water white birch trees granite rocks

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

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

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…

surf and turf of St. Andrews olde salts and bullshit under one blue tarp gossip thick as molasses sparks quick as match-lit gas

it was always said that of all the people on the Island I loved life the best I who had the least but I had all I needed

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

Suppose you was 18 years old And never had a single thing In all your life to call yours alo… Except your body and your face? And suppose you went to work