Many times, my father, drunk upon… “Spare the rod and spoil the child… Swung his belt and lay the stripes… To cleanse my soul. And I, drunk upon memory and whis…
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…
a great blue heron watches from a mogul of grass as I scavenge a poem from the marsh Tom Peepety calls
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
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
I am a rock on the shore of the magnificent ocean millions of years by the magnificent ocean and millions more
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…
I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction
which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…
Time for a pit stop Half face in rear view mirror Road unwound behind
we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity
little lies, seeds of thyme shallow-rooted, often sewn cover the largest stone yet a tree springs from a single seed
