WINTER SHADOW / Feb 11, 2011 small white stones fall rattling to the ground a shadow keeps pace beside me through the groaning night
which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…
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
Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?
SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…
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
I saw their faces as clearly as if… on their stones beneath their name… heard their voices in the trees whose roots go deep into their dus… and into the dust of this Island
wild rose bush crushed between the rocks so carelessly placed and yet there a soul looks out at me
little lies, seeds of thyme shallow-rooted, often sewn cover the largest stone yet a tree springs from a single seed
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
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…
silent universe solitary traveller a perfect union
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
Now that love has died Only silence remains between Two lonely people
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart