(1990)
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…
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…
little lies, seeds of thyme shallow-rooted, often sewn cover the largest stone yet a tree springs from a single seed
pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction
a cookbook is a strange place to find a recipe for the mind but the notes tell me the lemon tr… blooms year ‘round, never stops; while one branch sweetens the air
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…
wild rose bush crushed between the rocks so carelessly placed and yet there a soul looks out at me
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
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…
SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…
which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…
wind tangled trees coiling across a yellow moon spiraling leaves surf-curled dunes
Tide tickling sun’s wake Under a thin skin of ice Beach disappearing
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 great blue heron watches from a mogul of grass as I scavenge a poem from the marsh Tom Peepety calls