(2014)
looking at the world through drops of counterfeit lace on the window pane
inhumanity kills boys civilization kills girls
the darkening hills a triumvirate of crows in the glowing gloom
Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid
The taste of winter ice Dug in August from the sawdust Of Conley’s ice house The slap of the screen door On Grammy’s porch
see them standing in glass houses clutching stones of fear anxiety suits and shoes boots and jeans makeup and hair powdered and perfumed
grey rocks flowering in melting fu… first blooms of March after winter… a flock of ducks is muttering in t… the first light of day to brush th… shakes the branches they reply…
once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead
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
SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…
Now that love has died Only silence remains between Two lonely people
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
Me: I love to drive He: it’s too damn dangerous safer to fly, statistics prove it
Clouds on horizon Now and then a shorebird’s cry On buffeting wind
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer