(2000)
the darkening hills a triumvirate of crows in the glowing gloom
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…
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…
we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity
I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be
the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by
Time for a pit stop Half face in rear view mirror Road unwound behind
Nature’s snowy gown Melts into a silky pool Spring’s passion awakes
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 -
white-rimmed waves crawl reluctantly shore ward moody city skyline rebuffs shafts of sunshine cloud confusion
a great blue heron watches from a mogul of grass as I scavenge a poem from the marsh Tom Peepety calls
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…
how pathetic to be born without wings such gifts should be for womankind, too
wild rose bush crushed between the rocks so carelessly placed and yet there a soul looks out at me
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
