(2010)
(from a scientific report stating that our pre-human ancestors had wings)
through the sea smoke’s shimmering… where the Passamaquoddy flows the pulsing heartbeat of the strob… in my footsteps, crunching snow through the whirling, wind-blown f…
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…
Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid
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
a cold moon filters down through the purple asters no explorers have returned with caterpillar robes and dandelion gold
(Based on the fact that 95% of household dust is our own skin cel… flakes of me circling in the sunli… bits of you lying on the bureau gather them in a beaker
I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be
liquid blue nightgown made of lighter fare floats in romance of autumn air a ballerina in an erotic dance longing to join that v-trail in th…
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
grey rocks flowering in melting fu… first blooms of March after winter… a flock of ducks is muttering in t… the first light of day to brush th… shakes the branches they reply…
wild rose bush crushed between the rocks so carelessly placed and yet there a soul looks out at me
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
Early morning mist Loon fishing quiet water Shining wake behind
how pathetic to be born without wings such gifts should be for womankind, too
A man sits reading under a “SIZ… He does not look sizzling hot He looks quite ordinary in fact Perhaps feeling me watching him… (Not noticing the sign because it…