(2010)
(from a scientific report stating that our pre-human ancestors had wings)
Seagulls hovering Uneven hills encircle Tide pool reflection
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…
Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
All I wanted to do was ride my mo… And make out at Spooner’s Point. But when Mary Daley got pregnant Her father threatened me with the… So I married her and went to work
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
inhumanity kills boys civilization kills girls
death is absence of thought - zen how can we be afraid of something we cannot live to experience? it’s life that is frightening
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
Autumn dusk descends Street lights run on rain-slicked… To glistening pools
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…
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…
last night the winter world transformed to summer’s sphere fireflies in the night their aimless paths alight
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
Me: I love to drive He: it’s too damn dangerous safer to fly, statistics prove it