(2008)
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
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
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…
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…
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
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
white-rimmed waves crawl reluctantly shore ward moody city skyline rebuffs shafts of sunshine cloud confusion
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…
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
summer is ending following the rolling sun quite without remorse
Empty moorings and Quiet lighthouse watch the bay Crawl back to the sea
inhumanity kills boys civilization kills girls
wild rose bush crushed between the rocks so carelessly placed and yet there a soul looks out at me
pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction
Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?