(1990)
we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity
see them standing in glass houses clutching stones of fear anxiety suits and shoes boots and jeans makeup and hair powdered and perfumed
crickets and brittle leaves empty seed pods scurrying in the heavy scent of autumn
GRAVE POEM: EDITH MUDGET… How is it that I, who kept my hou… And, indeed, my life, and the live… Of my family, in perfect order; I, who made the beds before they w…
the darkening hills a triumvirate of crows in the glowing gloom
liquid blue nightgown made of lighter fare floats in romance of autumn air a ballerina in an erotic dance longing to join that v-trail in th…
mall tree never felt a breeze sweet swell of spring rain on your leaves new life in your branches
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
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…
I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be
Me: I love to drive He: it’s too damn dangerous safer to fly, statistics prove it
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…
silent universe solitary traveller a perfect union
the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by
once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead