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Seagulls hovering Uneven hills encircle Tide pool reflection
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
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
Autumn dusk descends Street lights run on rain-slicked… To glistening pools
A man sits reading under a “SIZ… He does not look sizzling hot He looks quite ordinary in fact Perhaps feeling me watching him… (Not noticing the sign because it…
the sum of the estate: pictures newspaper clippings poems the memories
Me: I love to drive He: it’s too damn dangerous safer to fly, statistics prove it
she watches him as if the fault were in her eyes poor shorn Sampson withered hands grip the canes that barely hold the frail reflect…
inhumanity kills boys civilization kills girls
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…
how pathetic to be born without wings such gifts should be for womankind, too
death is absence of thought - zen how can we be afraid of something we cannot live to experience? it’s life that is frightening
odd to think of the world without… a frozen corpse in the revolving e… molten lava below cold stars above journeying through the long, wide… unknowing
the silence of colour palette of fall reflected on water white birch trees granite rocks
last night the winter world transformed to summer’s sphere fireflies in the night their aimless paths alight