Autumn dusk descends Street lights run on rain-slicked… To glistening pools
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
I am a rock on the shore of the magnificent ocean millions of years by the magnificent ocean and millions more
crickets and brittle leaves empty seed pods scurrying in the heavy scent of autumn
I saw their faces as clearly as if… on their stones beneath their name… heard their voices in the trees whose roots go deep into their dus… and into the dust of this Island
once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead
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
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
WINTER SHADOW / Feb 11, 2011 small white stones fall rattling to the ground a shadow keeps pace beside me through the groaning night
inhumanity kills boys civilization kills girls
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 -
last night the winter world transformed to summer’s sphere fireflies in the night their aimless paths alight
Empty moorings and Quiet lighthouse watch the bay Crawl back to the sea
Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….
wild rose bush crushed between the rocks so carelessly placed and yet there a soul looks out at me