odd to think of the world without… a frozen corpse in the revolving e… molten lava below cold stars above journeying through the long, wide… unknowing
I have no family to care for my gr… who doesn’t care where I lay… for fourty years after an argument… which of us was bigger? in the course of our lives we bot…
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead
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
Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….
Life has a way of playing the vile… Or, providing an evener, some migh… I, who did not want to go to war, Seeing the senselessness of it, Stayed at home to work the farm -
Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?
silent universe solitary traveller a perfect union
Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid
the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by
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…
which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…
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