(2008)
Listen when the butterfly Settles onto your hand, Feel the footsteps. Marvel in the paper-thin Jewel that has flown to you.
As i walked across a field today in the afternoon winter-light I saw a fox, red fur afire, staring back at me. As I walked across a field today
Thirty miles to the west, sleet an… thirty sleeps the bay, temperer of… While snow and ice chill the west,… up to our chins. Here by the ocean… Instead of the sound of waves grow…
I’ve seen this pattern before, I… the story might end differently, b… The smell of burning leaves is in… fragrance that rivals the finest r… damp-leaf perfume cleanses the min…
From the sky They come– The geese fall to open-armed earth.
Walking alone on streets I was fa… felt that I was lost. If it weren… A-spin, I looked for my map And saw that I was lost.
Winds swirl around me In their familiar way, A touch here, another there, They move me along. I’m like a leaf:
Lay me down Beneath the forest floor Between holly and oak. Lay me down Where snow and rain
Rain has been falling for two days now, The dry soil finally quenched after the long, hot dry. Ditches, ponds and guts
Sun on the water, The surface looks like An old woman’s skin, Delicately wrinkled by time: The time it took for
Icy needles Stabbing at the skin, Razor winds Cutting through Layer upon layer,
When you look at the moon I see your smile. When you speak to the moon, I hear your whispers. When you cry within the moon’s sig…
The snow slipped in (we watched for it all day long) Like a secret lover slipping out o… All that we saw (when we finally s… Were the footprints showing where…
to be remembered by someone younge… people to be respected for who the… what they have. spring to last a few weeks longer. to always be thankful.
As the party lights dim, as the we… green of summer is forgotten in th… it’s here, it’s time for farewells… Autumn is the year’s last party.… of the party goers. They slip out…