Spring Clean
There upon the apron of the meadow by the stream, Were celandines cavorting wildly jostling to be seen. Around about the sunshine stared examining the trees, And in my ears the song of birds came …
The Prophet
They squabble and spit to defend beliefs clashing on spiritual frontiers, no true script but the audacity of fools leaking wisdom into wasteland. From out of desert comes one who would tell us what we …
Loud Silence
Trills and tremolos, chirps and warbles echo in the trees I see with closed eyes. Wind flirts with my ears and then whooshes over the treetops and down the slopes, joining the river’s rush. When …
Dear John
he gave me a nodding dog (the sort you put on the shelf of the car’s rear window) because he knew I loved dogs and I might have told him about the one I lost …
In Between
So, here I stand amid the briny surge That jostles surf upon the shore, Review another breaker’s jade converge With bristling foam. My gaze is keen Upon the far horizon, like a door That blocks …
Leviathan
A massive moon cast mournful red Upon the silent sea Where wandered, lost to land and hope, A pack of piratry. Aboard the Rapax they had roamedFrom Holland to Cathay,From Sousse to Santos and had …
Shepherd
Now you will shepherd lost things and they will follow you through every airport, crowd every interview, every dinner, every funeral, and follow you,like it or not, into the smallest hole, to either pole, ever …
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[ From out the Frozen North he comes ]
From out the Frozen North he comes,Areek of fetid sugarplums;He bears a sharpened blood-cord caneAnd drags behind an emerald chain. The midnight clear is rent by cryOf Carole Singhers, first to die,And bleak midwinter’s silent …