(2014)
#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…
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
last night the winter world transformed to summer’s sphere fireflies in the night their aimless paths alight
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
Clouds on horizon Now and then a shorebird’s cry On buffeting wind
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
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…
the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by
Suppose you was 18 years old And never had a single thing In all your life to call yours alo… Except your body and your face? And suppose you went to work
Early morning mist Loon fishing quiet water Shining wake behind
see them standing in glass houses clutching stones of fear anxiety suits and shoes boots and jeans makeup and hair powdered and perfumed
Autumn dusk descends Street lights run on rain-slicked… To glistening pools
she watches him as if the fault were in her eyes poor shorn Sampson withered hands grip the canes that barely hold the frail reflect…
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer