Poetry
Shredding
Five sheets at a time I lower your history into the teeth. / Deeds and denials, medical trials. Claims, creations, / applications. The list of guns in the house, / suicidal ideations....
Olympus
The dog on the path appears / from the shadows of nothing. / About the size of a wolf, / it does not growl, nor does it move / its down-pointed tail....
Footnote to the Book of Moonlight
First published as The Cotton Sonnet, then posthumously / as The Mineral Thief, the book of moonlight / / never did appear in paperback. But it was bound / in an...
On the First Day
all us kids had to do it eh / / a lot of us cried / all huddled together like sheep / bleating and pushing / trying to melt into each...
The Accent
He shakes your hand / in a crowded room, he shakes / your hand and leans in close / to whisper I like your accent. / / A long moment while...
Lightsinthenight
Moving right along from thoughts / of orca feeding down the food chain / to aboriginal dancers moving the crowd / with superman & zorba / to the mass graves of Canada...
Heron
In the twilight, witching hour, / a white heron turns a darkening pond / into a fancy cocktail, burst of white / delicate as a swizzle stick, a chive blossom, / a...
That Humming Bird Winks Green
The sky’s blue eye blinks awareness: okay. / The heron’s paper legs / cut a fine pencil drawing — / how many wing strokes / to complete the picture? / / Who...
When the Sky Flumed
you slipt from night a hempen bag the morning ran / sacked with the first messy lightit was time you saidtime to up and vamoose / your warm body on the loose you ran knowing the...