(2014)
#Haiku
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
Nature’s snowy gown Melts into a silky pool Spring’s passion awakes
I am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies
surf and turf of St. Andrews olde salts and bullshit under one blue tarp gossip thick as molasses sparks quick as match-lit gas
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 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
a great blue heron watches from a mogul of grass as I scavenge a poem from the marsh Tom Peepety calls
Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?
Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….
see them standing in glass houses clutching stones of fear anxiety suits and shoes boots and jeans makeup and hair powdered and perfumed
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
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…
crumbling mortar and stone among the trees it stands alone morning glories creep upon the flo… the stair has fallen through the d… the music of summer is in the air
In the universe Of winking stars is there one Who also wonders?
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…