Seagulls hovering Uneven hills encircle Tide pool reflection
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…
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
I am a tree beside the water my ancient roots run deep and wide in Mother Earth as one body dies
Now that love has died Only silence remains between Two lonely people
which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…
Snowflakes or fireflies Beneath an oval moon Do I wake or dream?
Time for a pit stop Half face in rear view mirror Road unwound behind
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
I remember the summer of the polio scare we couldn’t go to the cove to swim that whole summer
Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….
In the universe Of winking stars is there one Who also wonders?
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…
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