(2000)
#Haiku
Tide tickling sun’s wake Under a thin skin of ice Beach disappearing
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I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
Early morning mist Loon fishing quiet water Shining wake behind
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…
Time for a pit stop Half face in rear view mirror Road unwound behind
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…
Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?
surf and turf of St. Andrews olde salts and bullshit under one blue tarp gossip thick as molasses sparks quick as match-lit gas
SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…
Nature’s snowy gown Melts into a silky pool Spring’s passion awakes
it was always said that of all the people on the Island I loved life the best I who had the least but I had all I needed
There is an even-handed justice in… No senility forgiven, but caught a… Blood and flesh, bone and marrow To feed the life of another, And back to the earth that gave it…
which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…
Clouds on horizon Now and then a shorebird’s cry On buffeting wind