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

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…

pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction

looking at the world through drops of counterfeit lace on the window pane

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

we saw your burnished footprints in the soft beach sand followed them across the sea and through the shattered sky beyo… ‘one small step for man’, he said

we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity

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

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

There is an even-handed justice in… No senility forgiven, but caught a… Blood and flesh, bone and marrow To feed the life of another, And back to the earth that gave it…

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

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

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

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