(2000)
Now that love has died Only silence remains between Two lonely people
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
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
it was always said that of all the people on the Island I loved life the best I who had the least but I had all I needed
we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity
I am a rock on the shore of the magnificent ocean millions of years by the magnificent ocean and millions more
Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?
Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….
the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by
a great blue heron watches from a mogul of grass as I scavenge a poem from the marsh Tom Peepety calls
which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…
a cookbook is a strange place to find a recipe for the mind but the notes tell me the lemon tr… blooms year ‘round, never stops; while one branch sweetens the air
My queen for a day My man’s is in drag again Halloween party
Pappa always told me that you should never tell all you… and I found it to be good advice I recall the time I got back from… with my winter stores back in ‘39
Nature’s snowy gown Melts into a silky pool Spring’s passion awakes