mall tree never felt a breeze sweet swell of spring rain on your leaves new life in your branches
grey rocks flowering in melting fu… first blooms of March after winter… a flock of ducks is muttering in t… the first light of day to brush th… shakes the branches they reply…
Tide tickling sun’s wake Under a thin skin of ice Beach disappearing
little lies, seeds of thyme shallow-rooted, often sewn cover the largest stone yet a tree springs from a single seed
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we saw your burnished footprints in the soft beach sand followed them across the sea and through the shattered sky beyo… ‘one small step for man’, he said
Clouds on horizon Now and then a shorebird’s cry On buffeting wind
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
The taste of winter ice Dug in August from the sawdust Of Conley’s ice house The slap of the screen door On Grammy’s porch
the silence of colour palette of fall reflected on water white birch trees granite rocks
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 -
I am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies
once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead
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 remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer