inhumanity kills boys civilization kills girls
A man sits reading under a “SIZ… He does not look sizzling hot He looks quite ordinary in fact Perhaps feeling me watching him… (Not noticing the sign because it…
I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
Early morning mist Loon fishing quiet water Shining wake behind
In the universe Of winking stars is there one Who also wonders?
Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….
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
Nature’s snowy gown Melts into a silky pool Spring’s passion awakes
summer is ending following the rolling sun quite without remorse
see them standing in glass houses clutching stones of fear anxiety suits and shoes boots and jeans makeup and hair powdered and perfumed
we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity
I am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
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
