(2014)
Meant to be recited slowly as a mantra
#AMeditation
Nature’s snowy gown Melts into a silky pool Spring’s passion awakes
(Based on the fact that 95% of household dust is our own skin cel… flakes of me circling in the sunli… bits of you lying on the bureau gather them in a beaker
Suppose you was 18 years old And never had a single thing In all your life to call yours alo… Except your body and your face? And suppose you went to work
My queen for a day My man’s is in drag again Halloween party
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
the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by
Tide tickling sun’s wake Under a thin skin of ice Beach disappearing
Many times, my father, drunk upon… “Spare the rod and spoil the child… Swung his belt and lay the stripes… To cleanse my soul. And I, drunk upon memory and whis…
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…
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
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
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
inhumanity kills boys civilization kills girls
mall tree never felt a breeze sweet swell of spring rain on your leaves new life in your branches
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