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#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
GRAVE POEM: EDITH MUDGET… How is it that I, who kept my hou… And, indeed, my life, and the live… Of my family, in perfect order; I, who made the beds before they w…
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
inhumanity kills boys civilization kills girls
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by
Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?
the darkening hills a triumvirate of crows in the glowing gloom
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
Clouds on horizon Now and then a shorebird’s cry On buffeting wind
last night the winter world transformed to summer’s sphere fireflies in the night their aimless paths alight
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…
surf and turf of St. Andrews olde salts and bullshit under one blue tarp gossip thick as molasses sparks quick as match-lit gas