(2013)
#Haiku
last night the winter world transformed to summer’s sphere fireflies in the night their aimless paths alight
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be
little lies, seeds of thyme shallow-rooted, often sewn cover the largest stone yet a tree springs from a single seed
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
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…
Tide tickling sun’s wake Under a thin skin of ice Beach disappearing
a great blue heron watches from a mogul of grass as I scavenge a poem from the marsh Tom Peepety calls
I am a rock on the shore of the magnificent ocean millions of years by the magnificent ocean and millions more
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…
wind tangled trees coiling across a yellow moon spiraling leaves surf-curled dunes
crickets and brittle leaves empty seed pods scurrying in the heavy scent of autumn
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
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…
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