In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart

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

see them standing in glass houses clutching stones of fear anxiety suits and shoes boots and jeans makeup and hair powdered and perfumed

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…

pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction

once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead

the sum of the estate: pictures newspaper clippings poems the memories

Nature’s snowy gown Melts into a silky pool Spring’s passion awakes

sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two

wind tangled trees coiling across a yellow moon spiraling leaves surf-curled dunes

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

odd to think of the world without… a frozen corpse in the revolving e… molten lava below cold stars above journeying through the long, wide… unknowing