(2014)
#Haiku
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
crumbling mortar and stone among the trees it stands alone morning glories creep upon the flo… the stair has fallen through the d… the music of summer is in the air
wind tangled trees coiling across a yellow moon spiraling leaves surf-curled dunes
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
surf and turf of St. Andrews olde salts and bullshit under one blue tarp gossip thick as molasses sparks quick as match-lit gas
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
white-rimmed waves crawl reluctantly shore ward moody city skyline rebuffs shafts of sunshine cloud confusion
which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…
GRAVE POEM: EDITH MUDGET… How is it that I, who kept my hou… And, indeed, my life, and the live… Of my family, in perfect order; I, who made the beds before they w…
a cookbook is a strange place to find a recipe for the mind but the notes tell me the lemon tr… blooms year ‘round, never stops; while one branch sweetens the air
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…
Time for a pit stop Half face in rear view mirror Road unwound behind
I am a rock on the shore of the magnificent ocean millions of years by the magnificent ocean and millions more
I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be