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

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…

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

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

surf and turf of St. Andrews olde salts and bullshit under one blue tarp gossip thick as molasses sparks quick as match-lit gas

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

the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by

which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…

little lies, seeds of thyme shallow-rooted, often sewn cover the largest stone yet a tree springs from a single seed

looking at the world through drops of counterfeit lace on the window pane

a great blue heron watches from a mogul of grass as I scavenge a poem from the marsh Tom Peepety calls

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…

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