(2011)
#Haiku
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…
Seagulls hovering Uneven hills encircle Tide pool reflection
I met her at the supermarket this… She told me she works in the schoo… I saw again a little girl nervousl… at the taunting –Tallest girl in g… And I wonder if she’s back there…
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
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…
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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…
wind tangled trees coiling across a yellow moon spiraling leaves surf-curled dunes
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
the sum of the estate: pictures newspaper clippings poems the memories
I am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies
mall tree never felt a breeze sweet swell of spring rain on your leaves new life in your branches
WINTER SHADOW / Feb 11, 2011 small white stones fall rattling to the ground a shadow keeps pace beside me through the groaning night
Tide tickling sun’s wake Under a thin skin of ice Beach disappearing
Now that love has died Only silence remains between Two lonely people