(2014)
#Fall
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…
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
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
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…
seek the council of wild things in… leaves that turn their silver side… before the rain slender reeds that accept and bend they will sew your words abroad
death is absence of thought - zen how can we be afraid of something we cannot live to experience? it’s life that is frightening
looking at the world through drops of counterfeit lace on the window pane
I am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies
SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…
surf and turf of St. Andrews olde salts and bullshit under one blue tarp gossip thick as molasses sparks quick as match-lit gas
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
the darkening hills a triumvirate of crows in the glowing gloom
how pathetic to be born without wings such gifts should be for womankind, too
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…