(2014)
#Haiku
I met her at the supermarket this… She told me she works in the schoo… I saw again a little girl nervousl… at the taunting –Tallest girl in g… And I wonder if she’s back there…
little lies, seeds of thyme shallow-rooted, often sewn cover the largest stone yet a tree springs from a single seed
wild rose bush crushed between the rocks so carelessly placed and yet there a soul looks out at me
wind tangled trees coiling across a yellow moon spiraling leaves surf-curled dunes
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
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
Empty moorings and Quiet lighthouse watch the bay Crawl back to the sea
looking at the world through drops of counterfeit lace on the window pane
Early morning mist Loon fishing quiet water Shining wake behind
a cold moon filters down through the purple asters no explorers have returned with caterpillar robes and dandelion gold
I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be
WINTER SHADOW / Feb 11, 2011 small white stones fall rattling to the ground a shadow keeps pace beside me through the groaning night
once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead
silent universe solitary traveller a perfect union
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