(2009)
She asked me, “Poppa, What is love?” And I thought and then said “Love is what you need and want it… She thought some and said,
It snowed again today, That may be insignificant In a place already white. It was quiet again today, That is never insignificant
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…
Little puts a smile in my heart mo… it’s one that I have woken early t… on my early every-day drive to wor… of time. I look in the mirror and wonder at…
I wish I had the words to describ… the quiet of a sunrise, the softness of rain on my arms, the fascination of a child with he… the liquid silver of morning dew o…
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…
Rain has been falling for two days now, The dry soil finally quenched after the long, hot dry. Ditches, ponds and guts
Lay me down Beneath the forest floor Between holly and oak. Lay me down Where snow and rain
The blue of the sky Meets the green of the sea In the white of thousands of years… Frozen in a two-sided mirror of ti… You look back to see the past reve…
I walked on the same path With Pablo and Gabriella Last night. It is possible, too, That I heard their music,
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
Change is a-coming, And it’s a-stayin’ Change is a-coming, Goodbye.
Click: the saddest sound. The door closing on another Moment of my life.
Winds swirl around me In their familiar way, A touch here, another there, They move me along. I’m like a leaf:
The sunrise sun backlit the now br… it passed through them to light a… of fog strewn across the road. I shuffled through those pages ear… would have done so without me.