(2010)
(from a scientific report stating that our pre-human ancestors had wings)
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
silent universe solitary traveller a perfect union
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
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…
Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid
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…
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
Me: I love to drive He: it’s too damn dangerous safer to fly, statistics prove it
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crickets and brittle leaves empty seed pods scurrying in the heavy scent of autumn
pillars of sunshine through cloud - heavenly suburb under construction
All I wanted to do was ride my mo… And make out at Spooner’s Point. But when Mary Daley got pregnant Her father threatened me with the… So I married her and went to work
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
I saw their faces as clearly as if… on their stones beneath their name… heard their voices in the trees whose roots go deep into their dus… and into the dust of this Island
the silence of colour palette of fall reflected on water white birch trees granite rocks